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910th Citizen Airman aids mail delivery in Iraq

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  • By Tech. Sgt. Randy Redman
  • 321st Air Expeditionary Wing
Mail for Servicemembers correctly addressed with APO, AE, is flown directly to the Joint Military Mail Terminal here. However, mail labeled Baghdad, Iraq, is sent to an Iraqi post office off base and can take months to make it to its intended recipient, if at all.

On April 12, Senior Master Sgt. Douglas Senters, 447th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron emergency management superintendent stepped up to help the Army process an incoming mail truck from downtown Baghdad.

The mail truck was inspected for improvised explosive devices by an X-ray machine and military working dogs after it came through the main gate. Sergeant Senters and fellow Airmenscanned the truck and its contents for chemical and radiological contamination before the mail was distributed.

Sergeant Senters is originally from Randolph, Ohio, and is deployed from the Air Force Reserve's 910th Airlift Wing based at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio. He has been deployed to Sather since January.