A U.S. Army EOD team member handles an exploded 107mm rocket for documentation after it was intercepted by a U.S. C-RAM in a failed attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Aug. 30. After interception, the rocket tumbled nearly 100 yds onto the airfield. (U.S. Air Force)
A team of airfield operators, maintainers and air transportation specialists pose with an American flag at Hamid Karzai International Airport during last month's evacuation. (Undated U.S. Air Force photo via 621st Contingency Response Wing)
A crew of air traffic controllers pose for a photo at Hamid Karzai International Airport last month. Lacking a traditional control tower, they positioned themselves on the ramp to coordinate air traffic. (Undated U.S. Air Force photo)
A suspected vehicle-borne improvised explosive device is moved by forklift to a vacant area at Hamid Karzai International Airport during the evacuation last month. (Undated U.S. Air Force photo)
Purportedly the "final Boeing CH-47 Chinook" being loaded by U.S. airmen onto a C-17 Globemaster III in preparation of evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport last month. (Undated U.S. Air Force photo)
The last airmen assigned to the 621st Contingency Response Wing rally to a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III to leave Hamid Karzai International Airport last month. (Undated U.S. Air Force photo)
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I’m not sure I should tweet this right now. I don’t know that I have the stamina to get through all the nuance. But anyway, let’s talk about this @PentagonPresSec claim that Stars and Stripes enjoys “complete editorial independence” and is so valuable for informing the troops.
Why is it then, Mr. @PentagonPresSec, that Stars & Stripes REPORTERS are the only persons IN THE WORLD who DoD specifically & summarily disqualifies from making FOIA requests? Screenshot from DOD’s annual FOIA report data in 2020 — being a S&S reporter specified as denial reason.
(Note I did not file those five requests for S&S or as an S&S reporter. I filed them two weeks after DMA had ordered S&S to plan to cease publication by Sept. 30, 2020 — I had reason to believe S&S wouldn’t exist by the time these requests would be fulfilled.)
Pfc. Emily Zamudio was in the first platoon of women to complete Marine boot camp in San Diego. She's now the first entry-level female Marine to earn the 0311 MOS at SOI-West on Camp Pendleton, Calif., the service says. (Tessa D. Watts/U.S. Marine Corps) dvidshub.net/news/405503/tr…
“Knowing that the infantry is a male-dominant MOS, I wanted to prove that I can do a man’s job,” Zamudio said. “Hopefully this opens the door for more females.”
Zamudio was also motivated by her mother's example of perseverance and tenacity while often working more than one job to provide for the family.
“My mom supported me as much as she could and she was always there,” she said.
This @USMC officially licensed product from @OriginalFunko is "coming soon." (Oct/Nov per Entertainment Earth.) Lines of soldiers and airmen, too.
They're in the Pops! with Purpose line, meaning some of each purchase is donated to charity, but Funko's site doesn't say which one.
Sorry, @USArmy fans, no pinks and greens. But ACUs are well represented... What does this tell us about the age of the Funk Pop consumer being targeted?
Is that supposed to be @usairforce OCP uniforms? They look vaguely foreign to me.
Learned yesterday that @starsandstripes' Bob Reisman died from complications after surgery.
You won't have seen his byline. For decades, he was part of another crucial part of our mission: getting newspapers to deployed troops.
Colleagues call him "the ultimate 'paperboy.'"
James Afflerbach, a distribution manager for Stars and Stripes in Europe, recalled in an email that when he was a "rookie" in 2003, Bob refused all his excuses for not going to Iraq.
"Bob was not a prior service member, but he had more grit than a salty old drill sergeant!"
Here's how filmmaker Steven C. Barber described Bob when he met him during production of the documentary "The World's Most Dangerous Paper Route" a few years ago. usveteransmagazine.com/2018/01/worlds…