[GreyFriar]

LTC Bowery’s service: Bowery served over twenty-three years on active duty in Army Aviation following his commissioning from William and Mary in 1992. He deployed twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan, served overseas in Korea and Germany, and earned the Master Army Aviator rating for compiling over two thousand flight hours in Army helicopters. For the last two years, Bowery and his wife Mary Ann, an Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps Lieutenant Colonel, have lived in Washington with assignments at the Pentagon and Fort Meade, Maryland. from: https://www.dailypress.com/tidewater-review/tr-ugc-article-army-col-charles-r-bowery-jr-retires-from-2016-01-28-story.html

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"Deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan" is not actually combat, is it? Infantry and a couple of other MOSs suggest combat, not logistics or other Combat Support specialties (unless they were particularly unlucky at some point). Was he a MEDEVAC pilot or a gunship pilot? Don't know.

I saw that he is married - but it's not totally unknown for a gay man to be married. Ever done any investigations while you were in the service?

The part of his editorial that raises my suspicions are about his "LBTQ and women's inclusion in combat" part. Since when would that be a plus for combat effectiveness?