75 Year Old Reservist on Third GWOT Deployment

[SWJED]

Col. William Bernhard, an Army surgeon, stands in front of a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter on Forward Operating Base Lima, Iraq, Oct. 15, 2005.

Bernhard, 75, is about to deploy to Kabul, Afghanistan, reportedly as the oldest deployed member of America's armed forces

[Stu-6]

He kind of reminds me of this translator I worked with in Bosnia. This guy was in his late 70’s saw a recruitment ad for translators packed his stuff and shipped out with the army. As one of our lieutenants said to me “I hope I am in good enough shape to do something like that when I am his age, of course I hope I am smart enough not to.”

I hope I am able to run off to war zones and doing something productive when I am 75.

Kudos to Col. Bernhard