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Dan Wiederer began covering the Vikings in 2011, enthusiastically delivering insight on the team across the Star Tribune's print and digital products. Prior to joining the Access Vikings team, he spent seven seasons covering ACC basketball at The Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer. He also covered the Chicago Bears in 2003 and 2004. Follow him on Twitter @StribDW.
Mark Craig has covered football and the NFL the past 20 years, including the Browns from 1991-95 and the Vikings and the NFL since 2003. Since 2008, Craig has served as one of the 44 Pro Football Hall of Fame selectors. He can be followed on Twitter at @markcraignfl.
NFL-USO coaches tour gets underway
Posted by: under Vikings, Brad Childress, Brad Childress Updated: July 1, 2010 - 2:07 PM
For security reasons, there never was a firm date given for when Brad Childress would be leaving to be part of the NFL-USO coaches tour that would visit U.S. military troops overseas.
We now know the Vikings coach -- along with the Eagles' Andy Reid, the Bengals' Marvin Lewis and the Panthers' John Fox -- have departed. According to a blog that is being written by David Krichavsky of the NFL, the first stop of the trip was at Ramstein Air Base, which is approximately an hour outside Frankfurt.
Childress and the other coaches got an opportunity to spend time visiting with wounded soldiers at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, which serves U.S. and NATO forces injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The plan after that was to take another overnight flight so the coaches could visit troops in an active war zone. However, the plane on which they were traveling hit a bird shortly after takeoff and had to return to Ramstein. That meant Childress and the other members of the traveling party had to spend the night in Germany.
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