Editor’s note: this feature first appeared in the Colorado National Guard magazine High Ground.
In the Air Force, we’re taught to live by a Wingman standard. Looking out for one another begins the minute we join the military and is first taught in basic training, when we support each other in everything, from the smallest details on our uniforms to learning Air Force ways. It’s engrained in our everyday mission and values.
So when one of our fellow Colorado Air National Guardsmen stops to help out a person in need, it would seem like a perfectly natural thing to do. You’d also likely expect that things would turn out for the best when someone takes the time to help an individual in need, but that’s not exactly how it went for one noncommissioned officer on his way to work one morning.
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