Veteran AF

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)

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Monday, August 16, 2010

Two of My Favorite People Get Promoted

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At first formation on Saturday morning two of the best soldiers in Echo Company got promoted. Sgt. Jeremy Houck got promoted to Staff Sgt. ...

Sunday, August 15, 2010

More Sling Load Shots

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How close does the Chinook get to the soldiers hooking the payload?

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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Chinook Sling Load Training

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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 Br...

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Restrepo

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Yesterday I watched Restrepo, the movie about the worst corner of the war in Afghanistan. Here's the trailer: Both the movie and th...

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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

More from Jim Dao, NY Times about Afghanistan

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Jim Dao of the NY Times is following a combat unit on their entire deployment to Afghanistan from pre-deployment through the getting back ho...

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Talking About Dante Again

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Followers of this blog know I had a "Dead Poets Society" book group in Iraq beginning last July. The first book we read was Infer...

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Monday, August 9, 2010

Unfriending on Facebook

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Unfriending is an ugly word. But in the virtual world it is very easy to make a friend you know very little about. Most of the friends I h...

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