[PlanoMike]

God Bless and Protect Our Troops!

Also, God Bless those who help them, such as this American Airlines Flight Attendant.

[moodyskeptic]

The silent majority of Americans agree. God Bless their efforts.

[Notwithstanding]

Some of this sounds suspect. The word choices and terms seems wrong. Does anyone know if this piece (I got it via email last week, too) is for real? I suspect it is an edited updated version of something written decades ago.

[Geezerette]

Amen to that!!

g

[RaceBannon]

I just hope they come home alive. I have a bad feeling about Saddam and his bio/chem weapons.

[cornelis]

~

[lormand]

Awesome!

[TankerKC]

Has anyone her EVER deployed on a commercial aircraft (charter) and hand carried their weapons? The only time I have ever hand a weapon with me is on a quick trip via a Black Hawk...and only because we were unsure of the situation on the ground. These guys were going to Frankfurt. Surely the weapons would be crated and loaded with other cargo.

[Rebelbase]

Bump!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

American Airlines

goes to top of my preference when I have a choice.

[SW6906]

Haven't these people ever heard the saying "loose lips sink ships"?!!?

[GnL]

Let's hope the airlines are still in business when this thing is over so we can get our boys and girls back home, too.

[Poohbah]

Every soldier had a big gun

How was SHE in a position to know?

"This is my rifle, this is my gun, this is for fighting, this is for fun..."

[Cicero]

No idea if this is genuine. But there WAS a news story posted here about two days ago which mentioned that one of the Airborn divisions was flying by commercial airliners into airfields in Kuwait.

Whether they would take field gear and weapons I don't know. I should think it more likely that the gear would be sent ahead, but none of those details were mentioned. Just a passing sentence about flying commercial airlines.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Beautiful story and a great post.

[Mister Baredog]

We all felt that it was a great honor to be able to participate in getting these troops over there. Some of the flight crew had to step into the lavs and cry occasionally. I had a lump in my throat the entire flight. I was proud to be part of this....so proud!

There goes a promising Hollywood career

[PlanoMike]

One Hour BTTT !

[zlala]

Thank you for posting this. It reminds me how many people we never even think of are involved in this effort. And how many people SUPPORT this effort. BTW, I did a search on Snopes.com (urban legend site) and found nothing like this there. So I'm going to believe it's "for real". Thank you again.

z

[ChuckHam]

Man, this brings back memories. It seems like only yesterday I was a young SSgt climbing into a KC-10 on a hot as hell day in August of 1990. Myself along with the rest of my CE unit deployed to Saudi Arabia in support of our A-10 wing. We kicked some ass back then and we're going to do it again.

It's good to see ol' England Air Force Base is still in good enough shape to deploy Fort Polk soldiers out of.

[lodwick]

bttt