(First Veterans Day out of uniform since 1997!)

Time to hang it up

Operation is over

Victory unknown

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In the heat of the battle

How I’d long for it to be over

Always on high alert

The call to support troops in contact

The call often wouldn’t come

Adrenaline was high as soon as it did

We worked together as one

Impossible to break our unity and trust

After bedding down the jet

I would go decompress

And long to do it again