Msgt timothy wilkinson biography templates
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Sometimes you need to look at the dark things in life and figure out how to giggle at them.
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Around six or seven years ago, I enjoyed the unique opportunity to listen to a talk by MSgt Timothy Wilkinson (Ret.), a former pararescueman who earned the Air Force Cross for his heroic actions at the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia on October 3-4, 1993. Parts of his experience were captured as part of a tapestry of many brave stories featured in the 2001 film Black Hawk Down. Hearing his perspective in person was powerful, but I was taken aback both by his humility and the darkness of his humor. That firefight resulted in the loss of 18 U.S. service members and the injury of eighty others, yet Tim's memories of that night were peppered with hum
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Volume 13: Issue 2
About the Author: Allie Hulcher is the Communications Specialist for the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine. She has worked with UAB’s trauma team as their in-house communicator for three years. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Alabama.
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The onset of Operation Desert Storm in the 1990s remains one of the seminal events in Air Force history. On Jan. 17, 1991, the liberation of Kuwait from Iraqi military occupation opened with a massive barrage of air and cruise-missile strikes against targets in Iraq and Kuwait.
USAF special operations MH–53 helicopters initiated combat bygd leading an Army helicopter force that destroyed enemy radar sites. B–52G Stratofortress crews from the 2d Bomb Wing of Eighth Air Force, Strategic Air Command, flew from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, to launch 35 cruise missiles against targets in Iraq and returned home, completing the longest bombing mission in history. Constituting less than 2.5 percent of all coalition aircraft, the F–117A stealth fighter-bomber successfully attacked over 31 percent of Iraqi strategic targets the first day.
During Desert Storm, aircraft from a U.S.-led coalition flew more than 1,200 combat sorties with all service components involved. Air Force Rese