United We Roll at Stardust Radio

United We Roll World Tour Show
Stardust Radio www.stardustradio.com
Tuesday 4/27/10 2:00pm – 4:00pm Central (Live)
Wednesday 4/28/10 6:30pm – 8:30pm Central (Repeat)

Welcome Stardust Listeners and thank you for joining us on United We Roll this Tuesday, the 27th day of April, 2010 as we take time to honor those who serve our country and who protect our freedom!

We have three very full and very interesting visits with 6 of our Heroes of Freedom who are stationed in countries just about a world away. The show will stay within our normal 2 hour period today, ending at 4:00pm Central – unless live radio has an unexpected surprise for us. Remember, if you are not able to stay with us through the show this afternoon, it will repeat again tomorrow evening, Wednesday, April 28th at 6:30pm Central. In addition, an MP3 copy will be placed on our show archive site for listening and downloading. You can reach our archive site at www.stardustradio.info or on the United We Roll page at www.stardustradio.com.

(2:08pm) During our first visit today, we will be talking about a record setting event that took place on April 10th at TC Manas where the 16,000th combat sortie took off carrying fuel to aircraft in the air who in turn provide protection for our troops on the ground in Afghanistan. Joining us are the Captain of that KC-135 flight, Cpt Christine Stanaback of the 376th Expeditionary Operations Group and also joining us is SSgt Lucas Mailander, otherwise known as “Beef”, of the 22nd EARS (Exp Air Refueling Squad) who is a Boom Operator on the KC-135 and brings us an excellent description of his viewpoint as he connects with other aircraft thousands of feet in the air. We will have a story on the 16K sortie in our blog along with a link that will include some great photos.

(2:45pm) Our next guest is not only special to all of our listeners as a Hero of Freedom, but also to our local Stardust family as Sgt Timothy Ruffin is from a town just a few miles from our station. Currently deployed as the Senior Medic for Bravo Company, 2-7 Infantry, 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Sgt Ruffin is on his second deployment rather than being at home studying medicine due to a military process called “stop-loss”, which he will explain to us. Still, this incredibly dedicated young man is serving each and every day where he tries to beat death on a daily basis, taking care of those around him and he continues his future plans to get his medical degree and then to be with a certain group of patients who he considers to be the best to serve and to treat.

(3:19pm) Our final visit for today is with three deployed members of a US AFENT Combat Camera Team (CCT). Joining us are MSgt Kim Harrison (journalist), TSgt Jimmy Boone (videographer), and SSgt Quinton Russ (photographer). Now these folks do not stay at a base and cover stories there. They are constantly on the move by helicopter from base to FOB to base covering all kinds of stories. As you will hear, they have encountered all kinds of facilities or lack thereof. Talk about technology today and using it out in the field! I think you will all find this to be a very interesting visit. And if you are at all interested in photography, video or media, I know you will enjoy this visit.

We want to remind all of our active duty members and your spouses to keep very detailed records of your service including dates of transfers, deployments, locations, any and all activities, illnesses, awards, everything and anything. Your records may be very important at a time of retirement or medical discharge.

As always, our hearts and prayers go out to our military members, families, Veterans and to all of our first responders & their families - everyone who puts their lives on hold and on the line for us and our families.

We would like to invite our Veterans, active duty members, family members and anyone who is interested in health and legislative issues that affect those who protect our freedom to tune in to our other broadcasts – OFFE with Gene Simes and Jere Berry at 8pm Central on Tuesday nights and also with Rick Townsend and Firebase Network Sundays at 6:00pm Central.

May God Bless You All and May God Bless America!