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Showing posts with label 3000. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 3000. Show all posts
Friday, September 6, 2019

Chinook Landing on a Roof in Afghanistan Honored in Original Art

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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...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Accidentally Stumbling into Happiness

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The Declaration of Independence The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, along with Life and Liber...
Monday, September 10, 2018

Unforgettable Moment, B-52s Scramble, Hill Air Force Base, 1974

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B-52 Bombers taking off on full throttle on Strategic Air Command alert I was stationed at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, from 1972-74. E...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Reality Catches Up With Fiction 70 Years After World War II

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B-25 Bomber Pilot 1st. Lt. Bernard "Bernie" Steed Receiving  the  Distinguished Flying Cross for Bravery  on a Mission over...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

Military Pilots Really Have "The Right Stuff"

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Tammie Jo Shults, F-18 Fighter Pilot Today I listened to the audio of pilot Tammie Jo Shults calmly speaking with Air Traffic C...
Monday, February 19, 2018

My First Military Haircut, February 1, 1972

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The night before my Basic Training haircut. When I arrived at Lackland Air Force Base on February 1, 1972, among the first order of bu...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

The Topless Shoeshine Parlor: The Draft-Era Military Really was Different

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After Basic Training, the Air Force sent me to a technical school at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado.   The base is now a comm...
Sunday, February 4, 2018

Who Fights Our Wars? "Doc" Dreher, Blackhawk Pilot

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Darren "Doc" and Kate Dreher at the Aviation Ball Through Facebook, I just saw that a friend I deployed with in 2009-10 is...
Monday, January 29, 2018

Boris Libman: The Terrible Life of a Soviet Hero

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The phrase "No good deed goes unpunished" is of uncertain origin, but certainly applies to the Soviet soldier and chemist Bori...
Saturday, January 6, 2018

MRE vs. C-Rations: for me, the 21st Century MRE is the Winner!

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When I first enlisted in 1972, C-Rations, or more properly the MCI--Meal, Combat, Individual--was breakfast, lunch and dinner in the ...
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Sunday, December 17, 2017

Who Fights Our Wars: Sons of Veterans

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Myles B. Caggins, III, promoted today to Colonel Today, I heard one of the best speeches of a man honored in his profession that I...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Different Water for Sinks and Toilets--Camp Beuhring, Kuwait, and Amtrak

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On the train to Philadelphia recently, the toilets had water, but the sinks did not in the last two cars. I walked three cars away from m...
Sunday, July 9, 2017

Cliff Has More Than 200 years of Connections to American and German Military History

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Cliff and Dmitri during our visit to Point Alpha. I wrote about Dmitri here . During the last week in June, I stayed in the Guest Hou...