Maj. Robert Sides had a surprise in store for his son earlier this week at Kauffmann Stadium in Kansas City. His son, Austin, was selected to throw out the ceremonial first pitch. Sides put on a uniform and full catcher’s gear to catch the ball, and then surprised his son. “I almost lost it myself. I grew up a pitcher, throwing with my dad and to be able to do this with my son after being gone all year, Facetime only goes so far. You need the contact and I miss that so much,” Sides said, according to Cut4. Sides…
Browsing: Homecoming
The Air Force Academy Class of 1963 will dedicate a comrade’s long-lost ring when they gather Thursday to celebrate their 50th reunion. The class ring belonged to 1st Lt. Patrick Wynne, who was the backseater in a F-4 Phantom shot down near the Chinese border during a risky raid over North Vietnam in 1966. He was just 24. Wynne and the pilot, Capt. Lawrence Golberg, were listed as missing in action for more than a decade. In 1977, their remains were found and returned to the U.S. Wynne was interred at the Air Force Academy. His class ring hadn’t been…
If you’re flying home via Iraq, you may run into some delays as the Air Force works to refine the process of asking Iraq for clearance to fly through its airspace. Respected military blogger C.J. Grisham told Flightlines that some troops are stuck in Kuwait because Iraq refused to allow their flight to pass through its airspace. Some quick checking revealed that Iraq has not closed its airspace to U.S. military aircraft, but it is making the Air Force jump through a few new hoops now that all U.S. troops have left the country. With the end of Operation New…
