Great-Grandmother Being Deployed to Iraq

[truelies]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041124/D86I8Q7O0.html

LAWTON, Okla. (AP) - A 72-year-old great-grandmother is preparing for deployment to the war zone in Iraq and will become one of the oldest Department of Defense civilian workers in the war zone.

"I volunteered," said Lena Haddix of Lawton, who has five children, eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. "I wanted to do something for the country, because I was always left behind taking care of the children.".................


I now expect Laz, arod, badnews, IRI and wendy to join/rejoin the Colours.

;D

[WCP]

I now expect Laz, arod, badnews, IRI and wendy to join/rejoin the Colours.

;D


Packing my Depends and Metamucil as we speak.

Vietnam Vet, 53, Called for Duty in Iraq-Report

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A 53-year-old Vietnam veteran from western Pennsylvania has been called up for active service with the U.S. military in the Iraq war, The Tribune Review of Greensburg, Pennsylvania reported on Wednesday.

Paul Dunlap, a sergeant in the Army National Guard, will join an armored division next month as a telecommunications specialist in Kuwait, and expects to be there for at least a year, the newspaper reported.

Dunlap, who has not been in combat since serving as a 19-year-old Marine in Vietnam, could not be reached for comment. He will leave behind his wife Mary, four children and three grandchildren.

"I don't think any of them want me to go," Dunlap told the paper. "I'm thinking it's a long time since I've been in war."

Dunlap, from the town of Pleasant Unity, near Greensburg, Pennsylvania, said he received a call from his sergeant major and was told to report for a soldier readiness program, the newspaper said.

Dunlap's wife was quoted as saying the entire family "prayed that he wouldn't pass his physical."

"It's very, very scary," she said. "He's been a soldier since I met him, but there's a part of me that wonders at 53: Is he going to be up to doing what he needs to do over there?"

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=691242 3

[ilovelucy]

My husband was in the service when he was very young. He is in his sixties. Are they going to call him up?

[Observer]

If Dunlap is still in the National Guard and still collecting a paycheck from the government, why shouldn't he be deployable?

[Voxo]

LAWTON, Okla. (AP)





My hometown. I grew up in Lawton/Ft Sill

[truelies]

My husband was in the service when he was very young. He is in his sixties. Are they going to call him up?


Nope. The man in the earlier post is very unusual. At 53 the typical Enlisted Man is long since Retired. That this guy is even newsworthy shows the rarity of his situation. This is kinda on a par with an article I read yesterday about a 59 year old woman who is the mother (natural) of 5 year old twins. This sort of info is just made to cause a person to go :o :o :o :o

[truelies]

My hometown. I grew up in Lawton/Ft Sill


Military Brat?

[Lazarus]

I now expect Laz, arod, badnews, IRI and wendy to join/rejoin the Colours.

;D


Why, AFTER YOU. ::) ::) ::)

[Whiskey4bfast]

Packing my Depends and Metamucil as we speak.
I find the raw psyllium (from Trader Joe's) works better than Metamucil. ;D

But I guess it all depends. ;D ;D

[truelies]

Why, AFTER YOU. ::) ::) ::)


I am not the one(s) who keep hyperventilating about wanting to slay ALL the ragheads. Here is chance to turn words into Deeds. Personally I have already done my 6+ years unlike some here (not Bad or wendy). Anyway I am too valuable to risk falling into enemy hands.

[Lazarus]

I am not the one(s) who keep hyperventilating about wanting to slay ALL the ragheads. Here is chance to turn words into Deeds. Personally I have already done my 6+ years unlike some here (not Bad or wendy). Anyway I am too valuable to risk falling into enemy hands.


If you are demanding that others take up arms in defence of the U.S.A., then you should volunteer yourself.

I have been calling for the obliteration of the enemy with NUKES, therefore not requiring the loss of ANY American service people.

Therefore, under my stated position, my services would be unnecessarily redundant, whereas I believe YOU have been calling for even more troops to be deployed. You really ought to step up to the plate and LEAD the troops, then.

::) ::) ::)

[Voxo]

Military Brat?


Yup.

Speaking of this thread, I am suprised there's been no mention of Sgt Maj Jordan, by request staying in past scheduled retirement for deployment in Iraq.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-28-army-jordan_x.htm?csp=34