The Warrior
20 years USAF. Green Ramp Crew Chief. Chito-Ryu lineage. 312 nights under a Green Beret. The warrior who builds.
GREEN RAMP · MARCH 23, 1994
Pope AFB. F-16D collides with C-130E at 300 feet. Wreckage arcs toward the ramp. Strikes the parked C-141B Starlifter. Fuel tanks puncture. Fireball sweeps through ~500 paratroopers from the 82nd.
24 dead. 100+ injured. Largest peacetime loss for the 82nd Airborne since WWII. Public record: Green Ramp disaster.
That C-141B was mine. 66-0173. McGuire bird on the Pope ramp. Destroyed. I was the first airman at Pope AFB enroute who was not an E-5. The only person on base who had gone to tech-school QTP at a C-141 base — McGuire. I had ordered the parts for this jet. It was mine in spirit because of that. Therefore my plane.
Midshift. I came in to go to the bank. My plane was a smoking pile of wreckage. I could get to it. First thought: I ordered the wrong part and blew up the plane. Then the truth of what actually happened. Far worse. Not my fault. I was not on the ramp with the 82nd that afternoon. Survivor's burden.
USAF · MOCC · THE RAMP
I watched the EC-135 crash into the woods at Pope with my own eyes. I ran MOCC stateside and overseas — Minot AFB (B-52 nuclear wing), Ramstein AB during Afghanistan. C-130s, C-5s, C-17s, C-141s. Thirteen years on the ramp. Technical Sergeant (E-6). Crew chief with 7-level qualifications. Senior Controller — total domain awareness of the flightline.
Ramstein, 1998–2002. Crew chief. Eric Rosebrock was the flight engineer. Off-duty we built Quake servers, Linux servers, PCs, and hacked. I introduced him to Google Search. He later owned PHP Freaks, wrote the Sybex book Creating Interactive Web Sites with PHP and Web Services (2003), and is a drummer — Washington on the patent-troll fight after iDrumTech. A quote on the front of that PHP book is my ex: I used her Amazon account by accident. Her name stays off this page.
When systems fail, you don't theorize. You've seen the alternative.
CHITO-RYU · 312 NIGHTS
Lineage: Chitose (founder) → Hank Slomanski (The Hammer, taught Po) → Sensei Warren 'Po' Pochinski (Green Beret, rank from Chitose) → me · William Domeitrich Hanshi (separate branch, US Chito-ryu Federation)
312 nights under Po. Two nights a week. Every single week. Entire family trained. Fort Bragg Special Forces dojo. Highest green belt — testing for brown before Minot move. Audra State Park annual camping events. The Life-Saving Fist.
VETERAN
Certified Veterans Service Representative (VA). Adjudicated VA claims 2014–2018. PTSD & veteran claims. Books for Vets 501(c)(3). Neural Tunes — Crimson OS plugin, music therapy for veterans.
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