re: December 9, 2006 - Rich Rodriguez tells The University of Alabama "No"

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Neal Vickers

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His first assignment in his 20 year Air Force career was Madrid, Spain working in both radio and television, followed by stints in Cold War era Berlin and Kaiserslautern, Germany, Greenland, Texas, Arkansas and Washington, D.C. He was also assigned at one point to the Office of Secretary of Defense working with designers of the military construction budget.

Neal’s experience was also used as a military combat photographer. He traveled to Somalia in the summer of 1992 in civilian clothes to document the famine and fighting before US combat troops invaded in December. He routinely traveled with air crews and relief workers into war-torn Sarajevo in the early 1990s as the city was under siege. He flew with special operations units and rode with tank crews along the Iraqi border. Neal helped document American air, land, and sea military maneuvers during the contra revolt in Nicaragua in the 1980s. He was with the 82nd Airborne as they loaded onto to planes to invade Haiti in 1994, later helping rewrite the Air Combat Command war plans for the deployment of Air Force combat photographers during hostilities.

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