Fort Bragg Stories: Short-notice deployments are part of life at Bragg
Rapid deployments are a fact of life for soldiers at Fort Bragg. Once notice is given, paratroopers can have as little as 18 hours to prepare to go anywhere in the world.Bill Wadford was working as an operating room nurse with the 5th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital on the evening Dec. 17, 1989, when he got the call to deploy as part of the U.S. invasion of Panama.”We were in the process of doing an emergency C-section,” Wadford recalled. “The baby was out, the mom was stable, […]
