Risk Management Magazine

While assigned to Task Force Viper at Forward Operating Base Wolverine in January 2013, two armament Soldiers were tasked to conduct a stray current check on an OH-58 Kiowa Warrior rocket pod.

It was just like any other spring Saturday morning on Okinawa, Japan. We were donning our gear and getting ready for the first of two dives that day. Little did I realize this would be one of the most exciting things I’d do while in Okinawa.

I was a young buck sergeant at Fort Irwin, California, in 2004 when I purchased my first four-wheel-drive vehicle, a 1986 Chevy Blazer.