6 TIPS TO SUCCESSFULLY GRADUATE THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FIRE ACADEMY / U.S. AIR FORCE FIREFIGHTER SCHOOL ALL MEN AND WOMEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, THEN SOME GO ON TO BECOME AIR FORCE FIREFIGHTERS… One beautiful Fall Day in 1992, at the Chanute AFB, Illinois, U.S. Air Force (USAF) Fire Training Academy, as I sucked down […]
MY U.S. AIR FORCE FIREFIGHTER’S LIFE AT RAF UPPER HEYFORD, 1992-94 I STOOD FROZEN, ON THE CURBSIDE, WAITING FOR AN ETERNITY… I waited for my cousin’s husband (and longtime friend) Derek to appear in his white Ford Transit van over the crest of Camp Road, to save me from certain hypothermia. On the pavement with
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FIREDAWGS! HEROES FROM THE PAST: A CONCISE U.S. AIR FORCE FIRE PROTECTION HISTORY AS A PROUD FORMER U.S. AIR FORCE (USAF) FIREFIGHTER… …I am curious about something. Where did my military occupational specialty (MOS) originate, and what kind of history is out there on the Air Force Firedawgs. Not much. Sure, there are a few
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