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My Books of 2025: A Baker's Dozen of Fiction. Half by Nobel Laureates
The Nobel Prize In 2025, I read 50 books. Of those, thirteen were Fiction. Of that that baker's dozen, six were by Nobel laureates ...
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Tasks, Conditions and Standards is how we learn to do everything in the Army. If you are assigned to be the machine gunner in a rifle squad... -
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day is, on the surface, a beautifully restrained novel about...
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On 10 November 2003 the crew of Chinook helicopter Yankee 2-6 made this landing on a cliff in Afghanistan. Artist Larry Selman i...
Hey, I loved the fruit cakes. I'd trade the smokes for fruit cakes....
ReplyDeleteMREs are ok, unless you're stuck on some crappy fob and have to eat them for lunch every day....then, you just pick out a few things and leave the rest.
On my last exercise in 1991, we were issued rat packs that were older than I was. They were produced in 1966, and had been left in the back of an Army warehouse somewhere.
ReplyDeleteApart from the chocolate bar "blooming", they were fine. Well, as far as a rat pack can be "fine".
I was expecting you to light up some C4 and cook that can of beans.