This is a followup to our earlier call for Military Families who are willing and desire to speak to the media about our views on President Obama’s anticipated decison to further escalate his war in Afghanistan.
Seeking Military Families willing to Speak Out against Afghanistan
ROBERT L. HANAFIN
Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired
GS-14, U.S. Civil Service-Retired
Editorial Board
VT News Network &
Our Troops News Ladder
As the President’s scheduled announcement tonight
regarding troop levels in Afghanistan approaches,
we at Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) are
receiving an increased pace of calls from the media
looking for military families to interview.
The press would like to speak with MFSO members
who have loved ones in Afghanistan or who may be deployed to Afghanistan
as a result of the President’s policy decision.
Please contact MFSO’s national office via phone at 617-983-0710 or via
email to Members if you are available to speak with the press.
Your personal stories are the most compelling examples of why increasing
troop levels in Afghanistan is a wrong decision.
It is important for all of us as Military Families to raise our voices to
SPEAK OUT.
Thank you for your work and committment.
Deborah Forter
National Director
Readers are more than welcome to use the articles I’ve posted on Veterans Today, I’ve had to take a break from VT as Veterans Issues and Peace Activism Editor and staff writer due to personal medical reasons in our military family that take away too much time needed to properly express future stories or respond to readers in a timely manner.
My association with VT since its founding in 2004 has been a very rewarding experience for me.
Retired from both the Air Force and Civil Service. Went in the regular Army at 17 during Vietnam (1968), stayed in the Army Reserve to complete my eight year commitment in 1976. Served in Air Defense Artillery, and a Mechanized Infantry Division (4MID) at Fort Carson, Co. Used the GI Bill to go to college, worked full time at the VA, and non-scholarship Air Force 2-Year ROTC program for prior service military. Commissioned in the Air Force in 1977. Served as a Military Intelligence Officer from 1977 to 1994. Upon retirement I entered retail drugstore management training with Safeway Drugs Stores in California. Retail Sales Management was not my cup of tea, so I applied my former U.S. Civil Service status with the VA to get my foot in the door at the Justice Department, and later Department of the Navy retiring with disability from the Civil Service in 2000.
I’ve been with Veterans Today since the site originated. I’m now on the Editorial Board. I was also on the Editorial Board of Our Troops News Ladder another progressive leaning Veterans and Military Family news clearing house.
I remain married for over 45 years. I am both a Vietnam Era and Gulf War Veteran. I served on Okinawa and Fort Carson, Colorado during Vietnam and in the Office of the Air Force Inspector General at Norton AFB, CA during Desert Storm. I retired from the Air Force in 1994 having worked on the Air Staff and Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon.
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