Retired at 40

Eighteen months ago, Todd Nielsen was stationed at Balad Air Base in Iraq, 55 miles north of Baghdad. It was Nielsen’s second tour at Balad, where he was fire chief, putting out blazes amid the daily attacks on the base. But the worst part of his deployment wasn’t the mortar fire around him or the sandstorms or the boredom at night. For Todd it was knowing how much his wife Julie, a master sergeant stationed at an Air Force base north of London, and their three children - Kayla, Colin and Annika - worried about him.

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