Two Lessons From The DCA Crash

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10 hours ago, N201MKTurbo said:

I have a friend Lori who was in my old speed skating club. She was a serious competitor. 
 

After 9/11 she was mad and joined the Army. She was almost 30 years old at the time. She trained like crazy before going to basic training. She was crazy buff right before she left. We emailed a bit while she was training. She said she finished all the running and hiking ahead of all the guys. If anybody would have been carrying anybody else’s stuff, it would be her.

Last I heard she had been to Afghanistan 5 times.  She told me the story of her first deployment. They didn’t have separate tents or facilities and her group was coed. They did everything together sleep, eat dress and use the latrine all coed. She said there were no issues. If someone would have tried something with her, she would have kicked their ass. About a month later some officer came by and insisted they have separate tents and facilities. She said there were more problems being separate.

She also told me the story about her rifle. She said about every other month some officer would say either all the women must carry a rifle or cannot carry a rifle. She said whenever she got into a HUMVEE or a helicopter, somebody would hand her a rifle. 
 

She ended up running the post office for the Army in Afghanistan. She told me once that she knew more about where everybody was deployed than the generals did. 
 

She told me once she was really pissed because the bad guys were shelling her base and blew up the new Pizza Hut.

That Pizza Hut was one of the best sources of morale in Afghanistan!  That and the Thai restaurant in Kabul on the Nato base.  Surprisingly good!