โMr. Brecheen was 22 years old on 9/11 and a healthy, able-bodied young man.
He could have enlisted that day or in the many years afterward, but he did not.
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But more than 300,000 women have enlisted since 9/11.
166โฆhave been killed in combat since 9/11 and more than 1,000 have been wounded.โ ๐บ๐ธ๐ซก
fyi, substack by @charlotteclymer.bsky.social; couldnโt fit in OP
i was 23 on 9/11, a fresh UCSC grad & intern for Member of Congress Robert Underwood, Delegate for Guam ๐ฌ๐บ (Hafa Adai and thx to APAICS).
for service & personal reasons, I was on the ๐จ footprints at MCRD San Diego by Feb 2003.
meanwhile the primary trigger pulling i did in iraq ๐ฎ๐ถ in 2008 was on a keyboard making excel sheets of the daily guard tower schedule and so many platoon rosters
