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Today's Poll!Guardsmen: Attack on base created closer bond among team
The ADT VI team prays for the safe return of all before going to separate locations. The team had barely arrived at their base when it was attacked in April.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
When Spc. Bryon Helton’s wife, Emily, heard his voice on the line two months ago, she said nothing and only cried out of joy and relief.
Days before, the Missouri National Guard Agricultural Development Team (ADT) VI Family Readiness Group had contacted her to say the base her husband was stationed at had been attacked, but that he was all right.
In the interim, she couldn’t help but think the worst, she told him over the phone.
Since the April 15 attack on Forward Operating Base Finley Shields, the ADT has seen some, like Helton, return home because of military downsizing and others, like Sgt. Maj. Phillip Lederle, reassigned to a different mission.
But the violent event created a closer connection among the team members and caused them to re-evaluate American benefits they may have taken for granted. Both Lederle and Helton look back on that April attack in the same way — things happen for a reason.
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wow 10 months, 3 weeks ago
While facing similar circuimstances, all I thought about was not screwing up so that all the troops in my care could get back home to their loved ones...unhurt and with all their limbs. Each of us did what we thought was neccessary in order to make that happen. We depended on each other...right or wrong...nothing bonds one person to another like the seriousness of life or death.
I wish all these troopers a speedy return...and even thouigh Eric Holder is in contempt of Congress (such a joke). The people repsonsible for our troops still being out there in harms way continue to go unquestioned and there are others who are still donig more of that saber ratteling. To that I ask...when is enough going to be enough? How many other people have to die just because?
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