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Duke in Iraq: 4/5/07

April 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Days in the life:

4/3
1200: Go to lunch
1300: Go back to my trailer and take a one hour nap before a long flight
1400: Prepare for flying a nine hour flight
1450: Arrive at life support and pick up my night vision goggles
1500: Briefing on Intelligence and tactics with crew
1530: Call my wife before I fly. She has asked that I tell her only after I flown and made
it back safely, this time she guesses I am about to go flying. I am sorry
1545: Head out to the aircraft
1630: Take off and fly for 8 hours and 20 minutes over Baghdad. During the flight
at the 6th hour when everyone is in a zone, I suddenly hear the co-pilot say,

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