Daughter Deployed to theater today.

Kid went "wheels up" to Afganistan today with 3rd Special Forces. She's 19, a PFC E-3 with one year in. Prowd & scared but more the former. Talked to her alot last couple days, admin sh*t, when are we getting her car, bank account info, the old Yamaha got sta-bil in it and on trickle charge, cell phone suspention, blah blah blah...
I was all business with her on the phone, just said good buy like I allways do sive she joined up, "Love ya, Kiddo. Be safe"....
I hit one last post on her facebook page a little while ago...
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great ...enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
Me to her: Be safe, do the job, pay attention to the little things, action beats inaction... all I got kiddo. You got the ball. Good Hunting.
Been on the other side of this more times than I care to remember. Little different this time. Every formerly broken bone in my body wants to take her place. But I have been there and done that. Probably why I'm taking it hard. Questioning myself if I gave her enough along the way. I can probably look at her and know the answer to that, but not at the moment.

 

God bless your daughter and keep her safe. Thanks for the post.

 

Thank God for those that make the sacrifices to defend our freedoms. Tell her good luck and God bless.

MMCS(SS) Adam Pierce, USN, Ret.

 

I was thinking that I would never hear about those places again in my life time, after my Communist Leaders sent us there to "safe people of Afghanistan". At the time we did not know that such country exist.
After 10 years of bloody war the Russian stile = extermination of all man between 12 and 50 and 120 k our own dead and country left in ruins my comrade went home to find nobody gives a hoot what they did there. On bright side after end of Afghan war was the end of communist Russia.
Lets pray the she will be safe and all those that mean harm to her and her comrades would die from the lead poisoning still wrapped in full metal jackets.
God bless the country that fights for those who cannot fight for them-selfs, Uh-ha.

 

Good luck to your daughter! I appreciate her service.

My son-in-law is there now with the Big Red 1. He is about half way through his first tour.

 

Thank your girlie for me and all of us.

 

Thank you and your daughter for your service VFRH. If you were as precise with teaching her as you are with the details on your bike builds then people need to step out of her way! A true American is coming! :usa2::usa2:

 

GOD bless her.....

:usa2::usa2: God bless her and all the men and women in the service.
Will keep her in out thought and prayer.

 

She is probably a lot more prepared for this than anyone else in her unit.

Good Dad.

 

Much thanks to you both, godspeed and good luck to her from me and my PFC. KICK SOME ASS LADY!!!!!!!!!

 

She is supposed to be at HQ-HHC S2 shop as inell, but she volenteered and train on the FET's
http://www.military.com/news/article/spec-ops-needs-a-few-good-women.html]Spec Ops Needs a Few Good Women
but she dids conferm that there is a load of shooting and blowing up stuff in the training for a NON-Combatant role. She Freaking Loves it.
Got a call last nite, 10 am local for her, from the JSOC staging area...

I'm aweful certain it's all my fault, me at her age:

Lil shit is 5th generation Army, 2nd Gen Special Ops. Grew up around Paratroopers, Rangers, Snipers, Green Berets and later SWAT guys. Probably why she can drink like a fish and swears 'nuff to make a sailor blush. The character trait that I'm most prowd of is she understands WHY to fight, not just the how part...

 

Thank you young lady, and Godspeed. Stay strong, Dad, you have prepared her well. God bless you both.

 

Thank you

Looks like somebody in A'stan is going to get their ass kicked! Thanks to her and everyone else serving in that shithole. She will be fine; probably learned more at home than she did at Benning or Bragg. You and Kris should really be proud!

 

I thank Her for her service to our country. I thank God that there are still young people wanting to serve and answer the call for our country

 

Update: wheels up out of Kazakhstan.

 

It's been said numerous times. But a safe deployment to your daughter and many many thanks to the both of you and everyone else who has, who is, and who will serve our country!

 

Since I got a couple PM's from you guys & Soldiers LOVE Mail here's her APO address:

Nicole Persing

Unit 3-C

APO AE 09354

 

Half the sucess of a deployment is having a strong support network. It sounds like your daughter has that in place. Make sure she knows that you'll always love & be proud of her.

BTW, there's pretty much nothing else I could add after you posted the quote from John Mill.

KC-10 FE out...
lane: :usa2:

 

Yep, my fault.... Couple baby pics.