Operation First Trimester
My Most Recent Deployment
4 min readNov 6, 2018
A few years ago when I still wore the uniform, I attended the retirement ceremony of two of my fellow Airmen. One of them had retired years prior, and I hadn’t seen him since. The other left the ranks of the enlisted the previous decade and got commissioned. After that, we never hung out or worked together. Something about going from calling someone “J-bones” to “Sir” didn’t…