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Mellinger had heard that Kopp, a fellow Ranger, had been shot in Afghanistan and he went to see him.
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I told him his name and we sat and talked for several hours, Mellinger said.
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In Germany, Mellinger immediately stood out with his positive attitude, short haircut and mastery of physical fitness skills, said Bob Myers, 64, of Pleasant Hill, Iowa, then his company commander who now runs a chain of convenience stores.
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He wasn't a part of that culture and everyone knew that, said Myers, who was instrumental in getting Mellinger to enlist when his draft term was over.
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Mellinger's motto is simple: No whining — as the wind chime attests.
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Mellinger told the draft board there was a mistake.
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Mellinger's happy with the set-up of today's all-volunteer force, but he does think the contributions of draftees have been forgotten, particularly since there's such a romantic notion that after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in World War II, everyone "ran down to the recruiting station."
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A recruiting poster hanging today on Mellinger's office door at Fort Belvoir, where he's the command sergeant major for the Army Material Command, that encourages female troops to try out for female engagement teams that work in war zones with Special Forces troops shows just how much things have changed since Mellinger was drafted.
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Mellinger, 58, says his stories of being in the Army during the tumultuous 1970s as the Army struggled with issues of drugs, race and the role of women are so foreign to young troops that they look at him like he's a dinosaur when he shares them.
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Several soldiers who served directly under Mellinger in Iraq have reached out to him to talk about their combat-related mental health issues.
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