Life in Uniform | Shot out, over.
Print this article Bennett Danelo is another of those great men of my generation who enlisted in the military as a direct response to the 9/11 attacks. “I wanted retribution,” he told me. “I wanted to open up a can of whoop-ass on the bad guys.” The U.S. Army offers a wide variety of cans of whoop-ass to the enemies of America, so after some deliberation, Danelo eventually decided the best way to deliver retribution was with 33-pound high explosive rounds from an M119 howitzer. He joined a field artillery unit, serving among the proud soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division. He learne...