National Guardsman Says Air Force ‘Abandoned’ Him After Being Injured on Duty

National Guardsman Says Air Force ‘Abandoned’ Him After Being Injured on Duty
A sign near the main gate of Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas on April 3, 2020. Ethan Miller/Getty Images
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A National Guardsman has raised his service-related health issues to the highest levels of the Air Force. But according to him, he’s “basically been told to pound sand.”

After beginning active-duty military service in 1999 in the Army, Master Sergeant James Buckley joined the Mississippi Air National Guard in 2010, becoming a member of Air Force Special Warfare’s Tactical Air Control Party. Embedded with troops on the ground, air-to-ground communication was his expertise.

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