In 2007, only about 5percentt of the troops in Iraq were airmen.
But, for the last half-century, virtually the only Americans who visited Greenland were airmen, assigned to the coldest duty of the cold war.
MacDonald records 916 Southern Rhodesian fatalities from enemy action during World War II 498 airmen, 407 ground troops, eight seamen and three female personnel and 483 wounded, of whom 434 were soldiers, 47 were airmen and two were sailors.
But even before I could answer, he said: "It's Airman Kuhr, as I can see".
There's airman John Macready, who made the first nonstop flight across the U.S. in 1923.
There was, the airman gravely replied, no difficulty.
His father was an airman who was killed in North Africa during the second world war.
Before that, though, he was an airman who had enlisted straight out of high school and joined the United States Air Force's 6913th Electronic Security Squadron based in Augsburg, Germany.
"Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between.
I was an airman third class, so they wanted to give me another stripe.
