Comments on: Why We Serve – Captain Doug Traversa (Afghanistan Without a Clue) http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2007/02/06/why-we-serve-doug-t-afghanistan-without-a-clue/ Updated information on Veteran Benefits, featured Military Bloggers, the You Served Podcast and various other news and information relevant to Veterans. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:50:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ‘Why We Serve’ | TALON http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2007/02/06/why-we-serve-doug-t-afghanistan-without-a-clue/comment-page-1/#comment-110904 ‘Why We Serve’ | TALON Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:05:15 +0000 http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2007/02/06/why-we-serve-doug-t-afghanistan-without-a-clue/#comment-110904 [...] It all started about a year ago. The Air Force was going to be filling Army positions in both Iraq and Afghanistan. That meant that not only would we be deployed for a year, we would have to go to Army Combat Skills Training first. We would be wearing body armor, carrying weapons, and going into harm’s way. You can’t imagine how shocking this was to us in the Air Force. We didn’t do that sort of thing. We did our fighting from airplanes, and those who didn’t fly were stationed well behind enemy lines at air bases. Now we were being thrown into the Army. Yikes! This was scary. I was certainly afraid. In fact, my current boss, Maj Apple, is filling a slot that was turned down by six previous majors. By that I mean they decided to get out of the Air Force rather than do this job. These are guys with 12-15 years of service, and they got out. I don’t say this to insult them, just to show how frightening it was. [Continue reading.] [...] [...] It all started about a year ago. The Air Force was going to be filling Army positions in both Iraq and Afghanistan. That meant that not only would we be deployed for a year, we would have to go to Army Combat Skills Training first. We would be wearing body armor, carrying weapons, and going into harm’s way. You can’t imagine how shocking this was to us in the Air Force. We didn’t do that sort of thing. We did our fighting from airplanes, and those who didn’t fly were stationed well behind enemy lines at air bases. Now we were being thrown into the Army. Yikes! This was scary. I was certainly afraid. In fact, my current boss, Maj Apple, is filling a slot that was turned down by six previous majors. By that I mean they decided to get out of the Air Force rather than do this job. These are guys with 12-15 years of service, and they got out. I don’t say this to insult them, just to show how frightening it was. [Continue reading.] [...]

]]> By: Why Other Bloggers Serve : Military Blogs http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2007/02/06/why-we-serve-doug-t-afghanistan-without-a-clue/comment-page-1/#comment-573 Why Other Bloggers Serve : Military Blogs Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:54:53 +0000 http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2007/02/06/why-we-serve-doug-t-afghanistan-without-a-clue/#comment-573 [...] Doug, from Afghanistan Without a Clue, also tells why he serves. [...] [...] Doug, from Afghanistan Without a Clue, also tells why he serves. [...]

]]> By: devildog6771 http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2007/02/06/why-we-serve-doug-t-afghanistan-without-a-clue/comment-page-1/#comment-490 devildog6771 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:35:52 +0000 http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2007/02/06/why-we-serve-doug-t-afghanistan-without-a-clue/#comment-490 Great post Capt. Traversa. As an Air Foece pilot, if you are ever on a pilot's mission again and God forbid, your plane goes down, you will know how to defend yourself and survive until rescue. In this modern age of terrorist warfare, no one will be immune from the need to be able to defend themselves. Prior to 9/11, many of our Guard and reserve units could not have defended ud adequaately in the homeland if we fell under attack here. Not any more. Every single active duty and reserve or guard unit or soldier is now qualified and capable of defending us at "home' and abroad. You can thank Donald Rumsfeld for that. That alone was a major accomplishment for our forces. But he took things a step further. He streamlined and made virtually transparent the material support of the individual services thus removing a great amount of redundancy and useless waste of time in the initial set up and continued material support at our foreign bases needed for support of present conflicts. Thank you for your service sir. Thank you also for your sacrifices. Take care, God bless and be safe!! Thank you for sharing your story. Great post Capt. Traversa. As an Air Foece pilot, if you are ever on a pilot’s mission again and God forbid, your plane goes down, you will know how to defend yourself and survive until rescue. In this modern age of terrorist warfare, no one will be immune from the need to be able to defend themselves.

Prior to 9/11, many of our Guard and reserve units could not have defended ud adequaately in the homeland if we fell under attack here. Not any more. Every single active duty and reserve or guard unit or soldier is now qualified and capable of defending us at “home’ and abroad. You can thank Donald Rumsfeld for that.

That alone was a major accomplishment for our forces. But he took things a step further. He streamlined and made virtually transparent the material support of the individual services thus removing a great amount of redundancy and useless waste of time in the initial set up and continued material support at our foreign bases needed for support of present conflicts.

Thank you for your service sir. Thank you also for your sacrifices. Take care, God bless and be safe!! Thank you for sharing your story.

]]> By: Terri http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2007/02/06/why-we-serve-doug-t-afghanistan-without-a-clue/comment-page-1/#comment-446 Terri Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:34:16 +0000 http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2007/02/06/why-we-serve-doug-t-afghanistan-without-a-clue/#comment-446 Thanks for sharing your story Doug and THANKS for your service and sacrifices! Thanks for sharing your story Doug and THANKS for your service and sacrifices!

]]> By: Afghanistan » Blog Archive » About Afghanistan… http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2007/02/06/why-we-serve-doug-t-afghanistan-without-a-clue/comment-page-1/#comment-435 Afghanistan » Blog Archive » About Afghanistan… Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:19:46 +0000 http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/blog/2007/02/06/why-we-serve-doug-t-afghanistan-without-a-clue/#comment-435 [...] [Continuing on with the Why We Serve series is Doug from Afghanistan Without a Clue. This is an excellent post and you can get updates from his experience in Afghanistan from daily updates on his blog.] … – more – [...] [...] [Continuing on with the Why We Serve series is Doug from Afghanistan Without a Clue. This is an excellent post and you can get updates from his experience in Afghanistan from daily updates on his blog.] … – more – [...]

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