Posted on Aug 28, 2019
Denied hot meals and indoor toilets, US airmen prepare for the fog of war
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Sorry, but this makes me laugh... This sounds like they are violating the Geneva Convention... How awful... they are hanging around living in tents, and eating MREs... using porta potties... How awful... I can’t imagine having to do that... Who needs realistic training... Toughen Up and Stop yer belly aching...
Denied hot meals and indoor toilets, US airmen prepare for the fog of war
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Ah my friend COL Charles Williams it is not nice to lampoon …
I appreciate the statement by Col. Donn Yates, the commander of the 4th Fighter Wing, “These are things that the mainstream U.S. Air Force have not done in a long time.” Sleeping in tents and "cut off from running water, hot meals and indoor toilets."
""This is kind of expeditionary — getting people to learn and understand how to be in the field,” said Col. Donn Yates, the commander of the 4th Fighter Wing, which led and organized Operation Rapid Forge. “These are things that the mainstream U.S. Air Force have not done in a long time.”
Members of the 4th Fighter Wing deployed to Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, lived and worked out of tents used for mission planning, communications, readying life-support gear and other functions.
Additionally, some personnel were trained as “multifunctional airmen” to take on multiple jobs while on the ground in Poland, Estonia and Latvia, such as driving refueling trucks, pumping JP-8 fuel into jets on the ramp and providing base security, among more specialized tasks like loading weapons or perming maintenance.
All were cut off from running water, hot meals and indoor toilets."
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I appreciate the statement by Col. Donn Yates, the commander of the 4th Fighter Wing, “These are things that the mainstream U.S. Air Force have not done in a long time.” Sleeping in tents and "cut off from running water, hot meals and indoor toilets."
""This is kind of expeditionary — getting people to learn and understand how to be in the field,” said Col. Donn Yates, the commander of the 4th Fighter Wing, which led and organized Operation Rapid Forge. “These are things that the mainstream U.S. Air Force have not done in a long time.”
Members of the 4th Fighter Wing deployed to Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, lived and worked out of tents used for mission planning, communications, readying life-support gear and other functions.
Additionally, some personnel were trained as “multifunctional airmen” to take on multiple jobs while on the ground in Poland, Estonia and Latvia, such as driving refueling trucks, pumping JP-8 fuel into jets on the ramp and providing base security, among more specialized tasks like loading weapons or perming maintenance.
All were cut off from running water, hot meals and indoor toilets."
FYI MSG (Join to see) SGT Mark Anderson SGT Mark Rhodes SGT Jim Arnold SSgt Terry P. Maj Robert Thornton SFC (Join to see) SGT Steve McFarland MSG Andrew White Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. SFC Jack Champion SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL MSG Andrew White SGT Steve McFarland SGT (Join to see) LTC (Join to see)
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SFC Jack Champion - LOL--Even in VN most had access to "luxuries"(hot,meals,ice,showers(with real hot and cold running water) i envied them ,but did not begrudge them.They did their job very well.
My first real contact with Airmen,i was invited to their quarters for a cold beer and to watch a game on TV. Needless to say i was astounded(this was in Da Nang). They may have had better living conditions,but getting mortars,rockets and sapper attacks was no picnic.
My first real contact with Airmen,i was invited to their quarters for a cold beer and to watch a game on TV. Needless to say i was astounded(this was in Da Nang). They may have had better living conditions,but getting mortars,rockets and sapper attacks was no picnic.
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