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Showing posts with label Army Aviation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Army Aviation. Show all posts
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Leadership Reaction Course--Groups Solve Problems

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The Army Leadership Reaction Course gives a problem to a group and has them solve it in ten minutes or more depending on the problem.  The p...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

It's Not Just Me: Rejected by the Allentown Morning Call

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Today one of my public affairs colleagues complained that he has sent stories for years to the Allentown Morning Call and they never pick u...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Riding to Do My Army Job

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Part of my Army job is taking pictures of Army training, Army living and sometimes Army relaxing.  To get to these various places I ride m...
Monday, June 8, 2015

Getting Around. . . With a Little Help from My Friends

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Since early May I have been driving a 1996 Mazda Miata!  I did not buy a new car.  We are officially a one-car household.  We have one old ...
Sunday, June 7, 2015

Taxi, Take Off and Hover Videos of Chinook Helicopters

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Every time I take photos and videos of Chinook helicopters, I am too close and getting buffeted by the amazing wind from their blades.  A re...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

Photos from Boalsburg 2015 Memorial Ceremony

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Here are some of my favorite photos from the annual 28th Division Memorial Ceremony on the site of the Pennsylvania Military History Museum...
Friday, May 1, 2015

One Year at a Time--Now I'm in till 2016

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My friend Barry Free joined me for what turned out to be a 100-mile re-enlistment ride.  Barry enlisted in the Army Reserve in 1968 and s...
Friday, April 24, 2015

One More Year! In the Army Till I'm 63!

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Today at 2pm I got a voice mail from SSG Steinmetz in the Admin section of 28th CAB to call her.  When I called she read me a line from a m...
Friday, April 17, 2015

A Soldier When I'm 64? I am Supposed to Get the Answer Today

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Wednesday I talked to the Admin. Sergeant who submitted the paperwork for me to stay in the Army two more years.  She said we are supposed t...
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Eight Years Ago Today I Started the Re-Enlistment Process

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Eight years ago today, on Maundy Thursday in 2007, I started the process of re-enlisting in the Army.  The last time I was in I looked li...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

Who Writes About Our Wars: Matt Jones

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28th CAB PAO at Camp Adder: Me, SGT Matt Jones, SFC Dale Shade, SGT Andy Mehler In September of 2009, I moved from the Echo Company...
Saturday, March 14, 2015

Baby Killers, Climate Change and Conspiracy Theories

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In the past week, I spoke with people who remember the Viet Nam War and what many Americans thought of soldiers back then.  Many soldiers s...
Sunday, March 1, 2015

Photos of 28th Combat Aviation Brigade for Fort Rucker

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During the February drill weekend, our Command Sergeant Major asked for a disc of 200 or so phots to send to the Army Aviation Training Faci...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Who Fights Our Wars: Carrie Davis Jackson

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When we went to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 2009, I was reluctant to use soldiers names in my blog.  So the unnamed soldier in the post b...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Trading a Guitar for a Gun--Who Fights Our Wars

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With more American troops headed for the Middle East and with many of my friends in NATO countries that surround Ukraine and border Ru...