News & Events 2003-2004

Master Sergeant Mullaney on the War in Baghdad

Master Sergeant Mullaney (father to Colleen ’04) spoke about “The War in Baghdad: An Eyewitness Account from a Soldier” as part of the Society of Skeptics lecture series on March 2, 2004, in Armstrong-Hipkins Center for the Arts.

Sergeant Mullaney chronicled his 25 year career in the Air National Guard, including service in such hot spots as Somalia (“We shouldn’t have intervened, but we should not have turned tail and run after being bloodied in Mogadishu.”), Desert Storm (“Saddam was a bloody dictator.”), Kosovo (“Europeans should police their own backyard; civil war will explode once we leave.”), Afghanistan (“It’s still a tribal society; President Kharzai controls only 12 square blocks of Kabul.”) and the invasion and occupation of Iraq (“I was sure Saddam had weapons of mass destruction; Saddam is a mass killer and should be opposed.”). He believes strongly in service to the country and yet warns would-be reservists and guardsmen to expect plenty of action abroad during the years to come.

Master Sergeant Mullaney’s main mission has been connected to “medical extraction.” The evacuation system can take soldiers from point of injury back to their home base which generally requires four or more separate missions.

Jessica Lynch being received in Germany where she got definitive care prior to her return to the states.

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