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)
Monday, January 15, 2018
Nine Years Ago Today: Packing with an Army PowerPoint
In January of 2009 I was packing to deploy to Iraq with the 28th Combat Aviation Brigade. The five bags the Army wanted me to pack each had their own PowerPoint presentation. I packed more than I need, but a lot less than the Army told me to pack.
In addition to deciding how much I would bring with me on the trip, I had to be careful about how much I would carry at once. I had shoulder surgery on Halloween of 2008, just in time to be cleared to fly to Oklahoma for pre-deployment training on January 30, 2009.
By January I was out of the sling, but still technically a No-Go. I even had a No-Go Counselor to deal with the problem. Which I wrote about here.
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