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Still in the Fight……….
“Hurricanes are bad…” said Captain Obvious. Milton the monster (who remembers that reference?) is hitting the Florida Peninsula as I write this. Usually, the hurricanes approach the southeast US traveling due north and then push towards the east, up the eastern seaboard and/or into the Atlantic. If they go inland they rapidly dissipate. Well, Ms. Helene had thoughts of her own, traveling strongly north by northwest into the mountains of North Carolina, dumping what can only be described as a biblical amount of rain.
Now North Carolina holds a special place for anyone who has joined the US Army Special Forces. Fort Bragg, now known as Fort Liberty (“Vive la liberté!”) is the home to where one becomes a Green Beret, including participating in an Unconventional Warfare culmination exercise designed to free the fictitious country of Pineland from the grip of tyranny. It is conducted in 26+ counties and it extends well into the North Carolina mountains.