Veteran of four wars, four enlistments, four branches: Air Force, Army, Army Reserve, Army National Guard. I am both an AF (Air Force) veteran and as Veteran AF (As Fuck)
Sunday, June 23, 2019
Digging Up My Cold War Past: Moving Day Soon
We are moving to a new house next month. Our six kids are in or through college so six bedrooms is more than we need. As we cleaned the garage, I found this in a corner. My now grown sons used it to play in the yard more than a decade ago.
In the 70s when I first enlisted, this basic issue. All of my time in the Cold War Army, I was an Armor Crewman, so I never actually carried my entrenching tool in the field. But it was fun to look at this old pick/shovel and think this simple, effective tool was part of my life from soon after I graduated from high school.
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