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FAMILY
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out of her position to focus on
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Chris applies a bandage to Claire's knee while Mary comforts her after a fall. Although Claire now spends
more time with her father, she still seeks Mary's assistance when her mother comes home from Fort Bragg.
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being a mother, the children were
longer in coming than both Chris
and Mary expected.
This gave Mary the opportunity
to fly longer than anticipated. She
later would say her air traffic con
trol job was the best she’s ever had.
Even after Mary was sidelined
by a 1990 car accident, she
returned to fly planes, which she
could more feasibly manage after
sustaining back injuries in the
wreck.
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Flying “fixed-wing” as opposed
to “rotary-wing” also happened to
be a higher-profile job.
“Helicopters take you to a tent in
the woods; airplanes take you to
the Holiday Inn,” Mary said. “And
tents sound good when you’re
young, but the Holiday Inn sounds
a lot better when you’re 40.”
Mary flew fixed-wing on active
duty during the Persian Gulf War
but was stationed at Fort Bragg
and did not leave the country. After
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the war she immediately stepped
down from active duty and into
the National Guard.
Matthew, the first of three chil
dren, followed in 1995, and Mary
began her career as a mom.
Meanwhile, Chris was still busy
working full time for the National
Guard, flying Apache helicopters,
which are attack helicopter models.
In 1996 he switched to piloting
Kiowa Warriors, an older model
designed for armed scout missions.
Whereas Apaches fly missions
nearly every time they take flight,
Kiowas often are used for pilot
training and drug search missions.
Chris’s role will keep him home
—and without the support of a
full-time wife.
This means he has been getting
his own share of training from bal
let practices, doing laundry and
paying bills.
Mary has come home from Fort
Bragg to visit her husband and chil
dren about once a week since being
activated the first week in February.
But she says signals from her supe
riors indicate that the 30th Corps
Support Group —of which she is
the commanding officer likely
will fly out of Pope Air Force Base
for the Middle East by Wednesday.
After a prolonged seven-week
period of gas mask checks, gun
range certification tests and seem
ingly endless vaccinations, the 30th
CSG finally finished its validation
process at Fort Bragg on Friday.
Troops in the 30th CSG have
been able to see their families only
on a limited basis for the last seven
weeks, but all of them had the
weekend off for what they expect-
ed would be their last goodbyes for
as long as 10 months.
The unit was activated for a
one-year period, which will bring
them home sometime before next
February.
Mary noted that when she has
been home to visit over the last two
months, the boys Matthew and
Alex have been rowdier and her
3-year-old daughter, Claire, has
been more “clingy.”
In one display of her hewly
developed monkey skills at the
family’s home Sunday, Claire was
climbing on her father only to fall
and skin her knee.
Chris went to get a washcloth
and ice for Claire’s knee, but Mary
teased him for not realizing he
needed to dampen the cloth so the
ice would make it cold.
“Mommy’s got the ‘mommy
drug,' and Daddy doesn’t,” Mary
teased, soothing Claire.
Chris grinned and conceded,
“When Claire wakes up in the
morning she says ‘Daddy, come
here.... Where’s Mommy?’”
Mary said she has had a won
derful life as a housewife. And that
is part of what makes it strangely
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Alex and Claire play with Lincoln Logs with their father. Since Mary's
mobilization, Chris has spent more time with the children at night.
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coincidental that she is being
deployed for her first time.
For the last four years, Mary had
been part of a unit in the N.C.
National Guard that was unde
ployable —one that had her work
ing in an office, typing alerts for
activations of other units around
the state.
Late last year she told her com
manding officers that she wanted a
chance to work in the field in a
more active role. She was trans
ferred to the 30th CSG about the
turn of the year.
A superior officer from her old
unit convinced Mary to do some
part-time work typing the increas
ing number of activation alerts.
One day in late January, a fellow
officer handed her a black note
book containing the information
for a unit’s activation.
“I went to take it from her, and
she wouldn't let me take it,” Mary
said. “I asked her Who’s it for?’ and
she just stared at me.
“It’s for the 30th CSG isn’t it?’ I
said.... And I broke down.”
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