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"So i guess maybe that whole "Visiting Sick Kids In the Hospital" thing once a year was getting old?"

MASON CITY — Retired Major Gen. Gary Wattnem of Mason City says it still bothers him when he hears people say the U.S. lost the war in Vietnam.

“To me it was just a waste of lives for politicians to, you know, play their games,” he said. “When we were over there our hands were tied in so many situations by politics.”

Knutson and the others in his unit had to deal with mud during the monsoon season as well as mosquitoes and biting ants. They also were in danger of contracting disease.

Makin died on March 16, 1968, his 28th birthday. Coe said his friend had gotten off guard duty at midnight and stopped by the sergeant’s office, where shrapnel was used for paperweight. Similar shrapnel killed him during a rocket and mortar attack after he had crawled into his bunk for the night.

He was some kind of off duty part time cop. So the narrative I’m seeing is hero in blue, not ccw holder saves the day. Fuck.

Another time five tanks got stuck in quicksand. Knutson said they couldn’t be moved so they had to spend the night where they were.

The Drilling Equipment Set comprised a 229.5 foot tall, 12,139 pound drill rig tower. It was transported to the job site by sea and then loaded in by SPMT before being lifted onto transport stools for final positioning onto the skidding system. The DES was lifted up to the planned height for the skidding operation into the UPM using strand jacks and the tower lift system.

There is no joking for those who patrol beyond the 25-mile-long security fence. I watched as young  gunners from the RAF Regiment, charged with security outside the base, demonstrated how they cleared their routes of the ever-present Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) that have  maimed and killed so many of their  colleagues. One of the officers  I spoke to had direct experience of the devastation caused by these  brutal weapons of choice for  the insurgents.

That reluctance began to fade in recent years. The breakthrough came at a reunion with soldiers in his unit last year.

He and his wife, Gwen, have been married for 47 years. They have two children and four grandchildren.

If they were smart, they would realize he isn’t a conventional foe and they can’t use the conventional tactic of attacking his policies and expecting him to spend all his time defending them like they do with every other GOP candidate.