Reckoning with Mortality: The Hidden Toll of Being a Military Family in the Aviation Community
Bogdan Hofbauer
When my husband and I started dating in 2010, I told my dad, a retired Air Force Airborne Warning and Control System mechanic, that my date was a Black Hawk pilot. My dad made a face and said helicopters were just flying rocks and called them dangerous. He said he had no desire ever to fly on one. In 2013, my husband was deployed to Afghanistan for the first time. I was seven months pregnant and at home when the phone rang. I answered and heard my husband's voice saying, "There was a crash. It
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