Posted on 01/05/2020 5:09:02 PM PST by Enlightened1
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — Being a U.S. soldier in a fast-response force sometimes means being sent halfway across the world within a day, leaving no time to say goodbye to those staying behind.
That’s what happened to April Shumard when her husband, a member of the 82 Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, got the call. He was at home, minding the couple’s five children while Shumard was at work at Healing Hands day spa, when he sent her a text. He had to rush to base. He wasn’t sure if it was a drill or a deployment. Then she got another text: “We’re leaving tomorrow.”
She said her husband has been in the military since 2010 and has already deployed twice to Afghanistan. But with those prior instances, the family had much more time to prepare and say goodbye.
“The kids kept going, ‘When’s Dad going to be home?’” said Shumard, 42.
Her husband was among hundreds of U.S. soldiers deployed Saturday from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Kuwait to serve as reinforcements in the Middle East amid rising tensions following the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general.
Lt. Col. Mike Burns, a spokesman for the 82nd Airborne Division, told The Associated Press 3,500 members of the division’s quick-deployment brigade, known officially as its Immediate Response Force, will have deployed within a few days. The most recent group of service members to deploy will join about 700 who left earlier in the week, Burns said.
A loading ramp at Fort Bragg was filled Saturday morning with combat gear and restless soldiers. Some tried to grab a last-minute nap on wooden benches. Reporters saw others filing onto buses.
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Michael Moore
@MMFlint
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I have just sent the Ayatollah of Iran a personal appeal asking him not to respond to our assassination of his top General with violence of any kind, but rather let me & millions of Americans fix this peacefully.
Imam of Peace / Pray for Peace...
@Imamofpeace
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Also, Einstein, I just listened to the beginning of your message to Ayatollah Khamenai. You literally have music playing at the start of the podcast. The Ayatollah has a Fatwa against Music of all sorts. No one in the regime will even open it. A total and absolute fail.
Imam of Peace / Pray for Peace...
@Imamofpeace
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Also, you address your message to Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran. That guy died on the 3rd of June 1989. Your whole tweet and message is a mess from start to finish. The current Ayatollah is Khamenei and he has a Fatwa against Music—which you play for him at the start. What a fail...
“Short notice” and “Fast response force” seems kinda redumbnant.
Hence the name, “fast response”. :)
We so need to keep our military and their families in prayer.
When I was in the Eighty Deuce it was called the “QRF” Quick Response Force. Guess acronyms change with time as I have.
Hey, that is why they are called “fast response,” AP. Is English not their first language?
I’m no genius but should the AP be publishing the name and work place of the spouse of a just-deployed soldier?
Dont they know izlamists and other crazy people will target her?
Or am I nuts??
QRF or Ready Brigade. In the 101st did an EDRE once and had no idea where we were going till we were on the bird.
Pilot announced we were going to San Salvador, laughed and then said Ft Bliss.
argh
I love that picture....thanks!
It’s a special force inside.
24 hours anywhere.
They don’t think or care.
This is from THE PUKE - Michael Moore?? YUCK!
Remember some of the “troops” that were upset after 9/11?
They were whining, “I just joined for the benefits!”
Blanket party candidates.
Messiah complex. They can’t save themselves but they have to save the world.
DID YOU ORDER THE CODE RED????
top iranian terrorist mastermind...
Mikey is the new female Jane Fonda.
I was AB for a long time, all SOF that I know of are generating at one stage or another.
Thank you.
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