Winter Soldier Europe

Eddie Falcon served four years in the Air Force as a C-130 Loadmaster. He was assigned to the 50th Airlift Squadron based at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas.
He deployed to Manas Air Base in Kyrgystan, moving cargo, troops, senators, special forces units, medical evacuees, Afghan locals, vehicles, and more in and out of Afghanistan in the winter of 2003 and the winter of 2004. He was also forward deployed to Al Udeid, Qatar, to move troops, cargo, etc. in and out of Iraq.
Falcon redeployed to Qatar in the summer of 2004. The following summer, he deployed to Ali Al Salem, Kuwait. He transported Iraqi military officials in the Iraqi Officer Exchange program to Jordan, the US Senate Appropriations Committee out of Baghdad, and Prisoners Under Containment (PUC) from Baghdad to Basra Prison.
He also evacuated poor African Americans from their homes in Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Falcon received an honorable discharge in December 2005 and is now using the Montgomery GI Bill to major in Spanish at San Francisco City College. He now studies Spanish at the Complutense University in Madrid. In San Francisco, he lives in and maintains a collective radical event space called Station 40.
Since his discharge, Falcon has been involved in anti-war activities back home. He helped organize and testified in Winter Soldier San Francisco. He organized and executed Operation First Casualty San Francisco Black Friday. He joined IVAW members at the Republican National Convention in 2008. He also spoke at an Article 9 Association event in Tokyo in June 2008. He is currently helping organize Winter Soldier Berkeley from Madrid.

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