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Sergeant Daughter in Afghanistan

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JMS/.MN

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Youngest daughter, 28 year"s old, Daddy"s little girl, went to Afghanistan today for a 9 month deployment. Got married a year ago, Sgt. husband went last Sept for 9 months in Qatar, now she deploys, they"ve had only three months together. Jen enlisted for 4 years in May "09, now extended for 2 years to do the deployment with her battle buddies, cuz normal ETS would be before deployment ends, and she could not go. Dedication, service, commitment of her life.



Jen has a double major from Stanford U in Psychology and Sociology, but chose to serve us, and US. Wanted to be "just like Dad", mid 60s Special Forces A-Team Demo Sgt Veteran, but as a female, she cannot be in SF, a combat position. So, she chose PsyOps, fits her college background, did first in her Army PsyOps class, then 6 months Arabic language, writes and speaks it. She"ll be based at Bagram, (Jen"s comfort comment to Mom,about staying on base) but PsyOps and Civil Affairs people typically get attached to SF A-Teams, in country. Especially important to have women in country to deal with native women.

She"s the fifth paratrooper in our family, after my brother, his two sons, myself, now her. She made her 16th jump this summer, not likely to get any now.....but thrilled with every one. Three pix- first one is typical view for a jump about 1250 feet high, walk out the back at 160 mph. BTDT 22 times, planes and choppers....most empty feeling....trust your life to a 32 foot circle of nylon. Second is of a C17- plane like she went over on today.....4 rows of jumpers....bout 4 times bigger than the C130 I had jumps out of in the 60s. Notice the "baggage"- it shows a combat equipment jump......easily doubling the soldiers weight- BTDT- itzabitch!

Last one....proudest day of my life.......Jen"s grad from jump school, Ft. Benning, GA, Jan 29, 2010......I got to pin her wings on. Six of us Dad"s were first generation paratroopers, got called out before graduation to pin the wings on our soldiers. All five of us in our family trained on those same towers, 1962-2010!
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Crap! Wanted to add one thing...............please pray for and remember all of our troops that serve us and US!!! Something like 7 percent of our citizens are Veterans..........
 
You have so much to be proud of! Tell her thank you for serving our country.

Also thanks to her husband and to you for serving in our military.
 
WOW! You should be and obviously very proud! Thank her for her service...unlike her Commander in Chief there are many who are American and do really appreciate her choices and service! Keep us posted on her deployment. Us Vets need to stick together!
 
congratulations!! You should be proud. My youngest daughter's husband was deployed at the same time and may be with her.
 
Congratulations and thanks for the pictures. Thank you for your familie's service.

Son of a WW-II/Korea veteran and uncle of an ARMY soldier.
 
Thanks to her for her service. My Son-in-law just got out of the service after nine years. He too trained @ Ft. Benning GA. and was later sent to the 82nd Airborne @ Ft.Bragg. NC. He did two tours of Afganistan and came home safe. Best of luck to your daughter.
 
There is a picture going around on facebook just like your middle one, says it's a pic of the inside an actual can of whoopa**. lol
 
Awesome! Next time you see her, give her a bear hug for me. Tell her we are all proud of her and grateful for what she, her husband and all our military are doing for us.
 
Shame on him...he does not appear American to me...has nothing to do with his birthplace...just his ideas, ideals, and values. The Military IS American so just thought I"d point that out. I served under a Real American in the early 80"s, just so proud of these kids now serving the Country despite the Pres! When did you serve?
 
Jen has been at Ft. Bragg JFK Special Warfare Center since jump school- same place I had the SF training. I have pix of the Center"s dedication ceremony with RFK in August "65. Her flight over was delayed a day- apparently some mickey mouse convention in Charlotte caused air space issues.
 
Continuing the tradition, makes one heck of a proud parent, a great soldier and patriotic American! Besides ones individual achievements while serving, the heritage of multi family or multi generations of family serving with the same pride is also something to be proud of, has a certain "esprit de corp" to it .

As I recall in previous conversations here, yourself and my father did some similar things in the early to mid 60's, he was with the 7th sfg abn civilian affairs detachment CZ and some other places.
 
good for her! and god keep her safe...I guess I'm too old,its seems so strange to hear of our daughters being deployed. I think they dont get the recognition they deserve lots of times.
 
It would have been the 8th SFG, (7th was then at Bragg) and he would have been across the street from our company! Small world- only 8500 of us worldwide.
 
My grandson was in the 82nd AirBorne. He was in Iraq for a while hurt his back when the humvee hit a hole. Is now 50% disabled. Works as a guard in medium prison in Wy.
Walt
 
It really is a small world sometimes. I admire the tradition aspect of this the most, it defines us.

He was in '61-'65 and the earlier hitch I believe was the still 7th at ft clayton/amador CZ. I was under the impression that it was reactivated as the 7th, by Kennedy, approved or authorized by him ? Their roots are from the 77th in WWII ? The lineage is interesting, and I recalled your mentioning of it, (associated it with your handle here) same era, SFG, as I've never heard from or met anyone else within that group of that era or later even, it kind of prompted me here. He has some photos of the barracks in the CZ, its been a long time since I have seen them and he had a small stack of those pink forms done on a ditto machine with standing orders, status, as I try to recall from memory, his name was on all of them with the above status.

Regardless, I absolutely do not want to detract from the thunder of your post, your pride in your daughter has to be overpowering especially when you see your her reach the same pinnacle(s), tractors aside here, its always great to see current achievements by present day serviceman/servicewoman and the patriotism it fosters, to me its always uplifting.
 
Thanks to Her from a Gulf War (volume I) vet! With the degrees is their any reason she didn't try for a commission?

Capt S B Baker, USAF
4024B, Aircraft & Munitions Maintenance,
EOD qualified
 
Stanford is waaaay too abundant to have ROTC, and her majors do not qualify for entry as an officer, like dr, dentist, dietician, clinical psychologist, etc. Last year, Army announced no OCS candidates older than 28, about when she turned 28......OCS was her earlier intention, but she wanted some enlisted experience first. I think she would have been a better officer with that. Warrant Officer is still a possiblity, but that"s up to her. She and 5 siblings always made good choices- friends, jobs, etc.
 
After I posted about the 8th, I did realize you were talking early 60s, so yeah, things would change by mid 60s. 7th at Bragg was the stepping stone to Nam. Ft. Clayton/Amador was on the Pacific, (we were on the Atlantic at Gulick), and SF roots do go to the 77th. Fun to google the history. Kennedy authorized the Green Beret as headgear- you can imagine how the old crusty butt generals fought the idea of a bunch of misfit renegade mavericks in 12 man teams doing company size operations and living off the land. You mentioned barracks- I have pix on another computer....including the one I fell out of the 3rd story window after a payday party.
 
Yes I served 21 years over a 30 year period from 1960 until 1990. I at one time served in the 2nd Armored Division. i was 5 times overseas but no severe combat.

Our president was elected by the American people. If he was unqualified the Anerican people are to be blamed and the American people is the real USA The territory is incidentalb, but I am proud of it too..
 
She's another fine example of a dedicated American serving her country. May God Bless her and keep her safe.


P.S.....It really worries me that we have the current President the Commander in Chief of our armed forces...first time in my 78 years I ever felt that way.
 
I'm supporting her heart and soul!
It's nice to see the tradition carried on and the well deserved pride shows!
My dad said two things on the subject of jumping. One was the old adage
"Why would anyone jump out of a perfectly good airplane?" and the other was
"Just knock me out and give me a push, 'chute opens at 500 ft anyway!"
Guess that's why he never saw the beauty in it.
Nor the tracers.
 
Thats what it was, the headgear, I remembered something about Kennedy. Those guys were self sufficient all right, was told he did quite a bit of training, he had the jungle expert patch, also mention of LST landings in south america, securing runways in Da Nang, not much else was ever said though, it sounded like they made visits in places where things were unstable there were other clandestine agencies involved. If I am not mistaken, a lot of these guys were recruited by the CIA then, I have seen the envelopes from correspondence mailed from them, empty of course, but made me think that they liked to recruit these guys in those days, likely today too.

On the light side of things mentioned along with the misfit behavior, one of the guys whilst recovering from a bit of drinking had a buddy tucked in with him, a shark, another stacking the bunks up, that first step, and a deuce and a half in the canal, but thats ok, play rough, but send them anywhere, they will get the job done.

Reminiscent of Pappy Boyington's crew, misfits, but always got the job done, Generals had to like the results at least.
 
I had a couple 5000 footers one day, coming off the Pacific, onto a nice sandy beach, no water hazard or jungle. Takes about 5 minutes coming down, had an Instamatic in the ammo pouch. Got pix of my feet, inside shot of the canopy, others in the air.
 
I worked at Jungle Operations Course, for a bit, also taught some at the infamous School of the Americas. 7th SFG funneled through JOC on their way to Nam. We put our former buddies through hell. Jen has already been approached by CIA types, call me when out get out thing. Arabic language is a big plus.
 
That seems to be what they were doing, last stop/training before heading to Vietnam, learn how to eat iguana LOL, but it was alleged to be the best jungle warfare training school there was, then Carter had to give the canal zone back.

That sounds really great for her, its good when you create options related to what you did while in, vs something you can only do while in and not being able to use it when back in civilian life.
 
Never had iguana, not even the one that ambled into our team room, but did have jungle rat, snake, plantain, etc.
 
Hey, Whiz Bang!!

Why is this country in so much trouble today? Simple: We have an anti-American president!
 
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