Great photo essay from the Denver Post following one Ian Fisher from home, to Iraq and back again. (H/T to John from Op-For)
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What a great photo essay. His experiences are very typical of many young soldiers and sailors. Some of it you hate to see, even though you really hope he’ll learn from it all. Does the life ever really change?
Looks like the young man had a struggle with the “tear down the individual and build up the member of a team” aspect of Army Basic. It’s pretty disorienting. I went through it at Ft. Campbell, Ky. in 1968 at the age of 18. Having your ’self-image’ shattered at the point in your young life where you have all the answers(Hah!)can be a real eye-opener. Looks like he made it, albeit with a stumble or two.
Great photo-essay!
Cheers!
ChrisP
Whoo-boy, the personal life choice stuff in that young’s man’s life…
Major flash back to all that counseling I got to do of airmen and 3rd Classes. Looking back it was some sort of prep for life now with teenage and young adult children.
The kids wonder how it is I seem to read their minds and anticipate their next excuse. The clairvoyant father I am. /heh. Yes indeed. Little do they know, it’s just a rerun of a past life as a 2nd and 1st Class PO sorting through the tales of woe of Airman So-and-So from Brainerd, MN and how he was mistreated and misunderstood by the Virginia Beach Police.
Blackeagle,
You betcha! I understand exactly what you are saying. My son remarked that I was quite accurate in what he was going to experience at Fort Benning.
But yeah, the uniforms and names change, but the faces and experiences never do.