None Braver: U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen In The War On Terrorism - Plot & Excerpts
Jason Baird, T.Sgt. Richard Carroll, 2d Lt. Matt “Moose” McGuinness, Sr.M.Sgt. Bill Sine, and SrA Randal Wilkes, Jr. (Courtesy of Bill Sine) CHAPTER 7 FREE-FALLING TO A MINEFIELD FEBRUARY 16, 2002 Air Force 2d Lt. Matthew Sean McGuinness is one of those guys with an irre pressible personality, certainly the life of the party when he was an enlisted PJ, a staff sergeant, and probably no different as a Penn State undergrad and national all-star rugby player. Now that he’s a commissioned officer, and one of the first CROs to boot, he’s trying hard to rein it in a bit. But he’s made it through the PJ indoctrination course, followed by the training pipeline where they become experts at everything from HALO (high-altitude, low-opening) parachute jumps to scuba in order to make certain they can bring their high-level medical skills where they’re needed. Guys like that don’t repress easily. That probably accounts for his liking to tag-end the story of being the CRO for a history-making, combat rescue free-fall jump to a patient by saying, “I’m a Gemini and I like long walks on the beach.”
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