Browsing: All news

Category Added in a WPeMatico Campaign

An Indiana fire department got a call from a local National Guard base with an unusual — though not unheard of — request.
A paratrooper on a training jump at the Guard’s Muscatatuck Training Center had not quite completed a key part of a mandatory task on a training jump — namely, reaching the ground.
Instead, the soldier had gotten hung up in a tree just off the Bowden Drop Zone, about 30 feet up.
A rope rescue team from a nearby department was called to the scene to bring the paratrooper down, while the Edinburgh Fire Department sent its ladder truck to see if it could assist.

The first time someone suggests geo-baching, it doesn’t sound that bad. Maybe you’ve already been living apart half the time thanks to TDYs and deployments. Maybe your last PCS ripped the kids out of a great school, and you swore you’d never do that to them again. Maybe you’re just so close to locking in that civilian job you’ve been chasing for years, and you can’t justify walking away from it for another temporary move.
So you have the talk. You and your spouse go over the pros and cons.