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USO Tour - Day 6 - fpw - 11-05-2013
10/29 - We arrive in the a.m. at Frankfurt airport and are bused out to the Ramstein base which houses 70k Americans. It even has its own shopping mall. We check into the Air Force hotel attached to said mall, but not for long. As soon as we're settled we head over to the USO center on base where we hang out with the service men and women.
After a quick sandwich, we're off to the Ramstein hospital. This is where all the wounded from the Middle East are stabilized before being sent back to the States. Their average stay is less than 72 hours. The good news is: the census is very low due to the draw downs. After an orientation, we talk to some of the wounded, one of whom has serious writing aspirations.
Here's a photo taken during our orientation: http://www.examiner.com/article/uso-reports-operation-thriller-heading-overseas
A montage here: http://www.uso.org/thriller-writers-uso-tour-2013-photos/
After that we go to the base library where he sit and talk to a lot of soldiers and meet members of the base's writing group.