Today I got a call at 11 am from our Command Sgt. Maj. saying I needed to get to the south side of the airstrip as soon as possible. Our Bravo Company set up sling load training for the 2-28th Brigade Support Battalion, the soldiers who support the 55th (Heavy) Combat Brigade.
Sling loads are anything that can be carried underneath a Chinook helicopter by hooking heavy cables and lifting. In the morning, it was a Humvee. In the afternoon pallets so large they could not fit inside the Chinook.
Veteran of four wars, four enlistments, four branches: Air Force, Army, Army Reserve, Army National Guard. I am both an AF (Air Force) veteran and as Veteran AF (As Fuck)
Saturday, August 14, 2010
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