We’ve kept in touch with Major Ken Main, an Air Force Major who grew up on Mainwood Farm in Connecticut, and until 1993, was very much involved in the dairy industry. (See feature story in the February issue of Holstein World, page 66). When we wrote the article, Ken was stationed at Scott AFB in Belleville, IL, but since that time, has been deployed to Balad, Iraq, about 50 miles north of Baghdad. Ken and his team of 12 Contracting Officers supporting the Air Base have numerous construction projects going on. This is Ken’s first time in Iraq, being previously stationed in Afghanistan. He hopes to keep in touch with us and give us updates from time to time. We asked if there were supplies that the troops needed or things that they
missed from home. “What we need, we actually have a Base Exchange and can get just
about everything we need there. I wish we had more interaction with the Iraqis, but we don’t. If we did, I would do what we did in Kosovo – You could send us old soccer balls & stuffed animals for the local kids. But we’re not there yet — I don’t know when we’ll be in a position to do that.”

With this blog, we hope to continue telling the story of one (of just numerous) members of the Holstein industry serving our country. “Unless people have family that deploy, it is difficult for many people, I think, to make a connection.”

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