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Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec
Date: 10/20/2026 09:25:00
Good Morning.
Back to normal this week with me, at last.
Of course, nothing else is "normal" around here. The United States Government has sent an airman to his death. Was it combat, training, or something else?
Something else.
So, war isn't enough now.
But we're not the only nation that has bad things happening these days. Did you hear about the unusual incident that happened to the Canadian military in Alberta?
Another source notes that it was merely a small brushfire, over a kilometer away from the training area, when the wind shifted. According to that report, the fire covered the distance in about 40 seconds, overwhelming Canada's finest.
War remains a dangerous game.
Back to normal this week with me, at last.
Of course, nothing else is "normal" around here. The United States Government has sent an airman to his death. Was it combat, training, or something else?
Something else.
An airman has died after falling while rappelling from the rafters at a college football game in Texas.
The service member died at a hospital after participating in a pregame rappelling demonstration at the University of Texas at San Antonio's Salute to Armed Forces & Veterans game, a spokesperson for Nellis Air Force Base Public Affairs told CBS 8.
Social media videos show the airman losing control as he descended the rope. The football game continued just 10 minutes after he was transported to a local hospital. [boldface mine - Ed.]
The rappelling team consisted of members of the 6th Combat Training Squadron, Detachment 2, Task & Purpose reported. Though rappelling demonstrations are an annual feature of the game, the spectacle comes as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has emphasized a renewed "warrior ethos" within the U.S. military, drawing criticism of the Trump appointee.
"Thanks @PeteHegseth @SecWar for yet another pointless and tragic recruiting spectacle," Jackie Singh, an aide on President Joe Biden's 2020 campaign, wrote on X.
Dem strategist Chris D. Jackson called the stunt "absolutely sickening."
"This ridiculous military showboating at football games needs to STOP," he wrote on X.
So, war isn't enough now.
But we're not the only nation that has bad things happening these days. Did you hear about the unusual incident that happened to the Canadian military in Alberta?
A dangerous combination of weather conditions was at play Saturday afternoon when a deadly fire engulfed a training exercise at CFB Wainwright in east-central Alberta, killing four soldiers and severely injuring dozens more, weather and wildfire experts say.
That morning, Environment Canada had issued yellow alerts for much of southern and eastern Alberta because of strong winds forecast to reach up to 100 km/h and an incoming cold front that could cause abrupt changes in wind direction.
Before the cold front reached the area, the temperature in Wainwright climbed to nearly 20 C under sunny skies.
"Conditions were extreme," said Mike Flannigan, a professor of wildland fires at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C., who runs the Canada fire weather outlook. "Things were dry. Any fires that started would have spread rapidly and would be intense and that's pretty well what happened."
Another source notes that it was merely a small brushfire, over a kilometer away from the training area, when the wind shifted. According to that report, the fire covered the distance in about 40 seconds, overwhelming Canada's finest.
War remains a dangerous game.
