another deployment for my son

[S&W Fan]

Well my older son is in premob training now. He's an E7 Flight Medic and ncoic of his avaition unit so in addition to flying he's also the "boss". Has a new commanding officer who just got back from Kosovo, they're getting along pretty well right now.

He and his wife have 3 little kids-1, 3 and 7 yrs old. As I'm still working I won't be able to help her out except on weekends. At this point plans for some kind of departure ceremony are still up in the air. One thing they're talking about is maybe doing a fly by for the families, to be determined. He's not real hot on a virtual ceremony, he'd rather his soldiers have the time with family.

Anyway, we're hoping there won't be anymore after this so he can get out after 20 smoothly. He's been in for 17 years now.

Keep all our servicemembers in your thoughts as they keep doing what they signed on to do. Thanks.

This is from '14 when he was in Afghanistan

 

[Tom Beavert]

Tell them all THANKS from me.
Tom B.

 

[pawncop]

Prayer for his safety every day.

 

[Tom Kent]

Tell them I said thanks for what they do and how they do it.

 

[shell627]

God Bless all of our service men and women.

 

[mckenney99]

While all military people are special, medics are a special breed. May your son have an uneventful deployment and return home soon safely.

 

[Redbert31]

God bless him and all our service men and women out there. Thank you and all for your service to America[emoji120][emoji120][emoji3590][emoji3590][emoji631][emoji631]

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[S&W Fan]

Thank you all, he's now in a different unit than the one from '14 but they're all great in my book.

There's a really good documentary about the history of the Army's "Dustoff" program that came out a few years ago. I have the bluray version though it's also available on standard dvd if anyone is interested. Not sure where else it's available:
When I Have Your Wounded

 

[Rudi]

Thank God for men like your son. Prayers for him.

 

[rbrbrb6]

With three kids flying for the A/F I fully understand the idea of nights getting longer while our kids are away. I pray his deployment will be a safe one even though his line of duty tends to be pretty stressful. One of the kids flies a Pavehawk for the A/F para-rescue jumpers so I understand the thoughts that go through a dads head.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

PRAYERS SENT FOR A SAFE RETURN

 

[robrossk]

Be safe and Semper Fi

 

[steelslaver]

Heres to everyone in the military. I hope your son has nothing important to do for his whole tour

 

[Old_Cop]

I pray for the men and women in the armed forces everyday.

 

[Donn]

I feel ya, Fan. My son's been in 18 years, has four combat deployments, plus several others to "not hot" areas. I'm sure there'll be more, but for both our son's sake, I hope the lid stays on world events.

 

[Sistema1927]

Godspeed and a safe return.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

My son's last deployment was a 11 month hitch at GITMO running patrols outside the bay back and forth in front of the prison. He is still in the CG and has a few more years to go to hit his 20. Probably will be no more deployments as he is currently an RN doing Covid ICU and they don't even want him going in on weekends!
I one day asked him what he would do if the SHTF down at GITMO and he said standing orders were to hi tail it back to the dock and let the Navy handle it
BIG stink when he left as someone had stolen the Ensign on his boat. The Commander wanted to take it home as a souvenir. Someone beat him to it! Searched everyone and never could find it. Unfounded rumor has it that the Ensign is safely ensconced in a shadow box hanging in some lawyers office in south Louisiana
HAVE new found respect for the Coasties as well as EVERYONE of the young men and women who take time out of their lives to protect and serve out country.

 

[Iggy]

WY Air National Guard is being deployed to protect Biden during the inauguration ceremonies at Ft. Pelosi.

 

[yaktamer]

Unfounded rumor has it that the Ensign is safely ensconced in a shadow box hanging in some lawyers office in south Louisiana.

Not sure why you'd want to keep an O-1 in a shadow box. Did you at least drill air holes?

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

My oldest son was Airborne Infantry (1/325 AIR) for 4 years, got done and became a Blackhawk mechanic in the 1 Armor Div. (don't know which Squadron). That division went to Iraq for the second wave (2004ish),
after 6 months he was a crew chief and fling in bullet filled air.

I also had a second son in the USMC, and on TDY in The Philippines doing short trips, terrorist hunting.

When you have your kids in combat half a world away, you will wake up at the strangest times to pray for them. When that happens, they need you the most right then, so go with the flow!

From 2001 to 2012 my church had 4 people in combat or support constantly. (regular and reservists would rotate out, and another would be deployed!) Our prayer teams got a workout. But slowly the stories trickle back of the intervention and miracles that happened to them, and you know that your prayers were part of making that happen (or more like, making that not happen)!

I would get calls and e-mails form our (I think of them as My) servicemen, asking, begging, and demanding prayers for their protection! And then 3 or 4 weeks later they would let me know how some miracle saved their lives! (Like when they were in the Iraqi Parliament building and hear a cell phone ring in an office beside them, only to open the door and see there are packets of C-4 Daisy chained to the cell phone along the hall wall, but the IED didn't go off and kill the whole bunch of them!)

I would run in to wounded service men (usually in gun shops) and if I get a chance, talk with them. When I walk away, I always feel like the people that were suppose to be praying for them, dropped to ball. So I double up and pray for more!

Ivan