[Vision2020] Air Force Boots Top Aviator

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of the Huffington Post at:

http://tinyurl.com/Fehrenbach

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Air Force Boots Their 25 Milion Dollar Aviator

New President. New Congress. No Change. Here is the latest evidence of
what our country is losing under the law that prevents gay men and women
from serving openly in the armed forces of the United States.

Lieutenant Colonel Victor J. Fehrenbach, a fighter weapons systems
officer, has been flying the F-15E Strike Eagle since 1998. He has flown
numerous missions against Taliban and al-Qaida targets, including the
longest combat mission in his squadron's history. On that infamous
September 11, 2001, Lt. Col. Fehrenbach was handpicked to fly sorties
above the nation's capital. Later he flew combat missions in Iraq and
Afghanistan. He has received at least 30 awards and decorations including
nine air medals, one of them for heroism, as well as campaign medals for
Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is now a flight instructor in Idaho,
where he has passed on his skills to more than 300 future Navy, Marine
Corps, and Air Force weapons systems officers.

Since 1987, when Fehrenbach entered Notre Dame on a full Air Force ROTC
scholarship, the government has invested twenty-five million dollars in
training and equipping him to serve his country, which he has done with
what anyone would agree was great distinction. He comes from a military
family. His father was a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, his mother
an Air Force nurse and captain. Lt. Col. Fehrenbach has honored that
tradition.

And the Air Force is about to discharge this guy, a virtual poster boy for
Air Force recruiting, because he is gay.

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Lieutenant Colonel Fehrenbach interviewed on Rachel Maddow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NZDRjEKwtQ

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the
tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."

-- Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.