Monday, October 15, 2012

Great Guy Gets Promoted--Chad Hummel to Sgt. 1st Class

Echo Company, 2-104th Aviation dumps water on newly promoted soldiers.  In the case of sergeants, the soaking occurs right as they finish reciting the NCO Creed.  This is Chad Hummel, the Echo Co. training NCO, just as he finished reciting the creed from memory.  The Army gets better every time someone like Chad gets promoted.







Reading Robert Alter: The Psalms and the Wisdom Books

  Over the past year I have read two of Robert Alter 's remarkable translations of the Hebrew Bible: The Book of Psalms and, more recen...