▼
Showing posts with label Army. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Army. Show all posts
Saturday, September 16, 2023

Musee de l'Armee in Paris: A Vast Museum of French Military History

›
On this trip to Paris, I visited the  Musee de l'Armee  or the Army Museum. With more than 500,000 artifacts in 12,000 square meters (3 ...
Sunday, November 13, 2022

Colonel Myles B. Caggins III Retires After 26 Years of Service

›
  Major Myles B. Caggins, 1st Armored Division, Camp Adder, Iraq, 2009 On Veteran's Day weekend, 2022, Colonel Myles B. Caggins III reti...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

How I Became a Photographer (Twice)--And Why I Don't Own a Camera

›
A Crew Chief checking the tail rotor of his Blackhawk helicopter on the  air strip at  Camp Adder, Iraq, at Sunset, November 2009.  Sometime...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Axl Rose T-Shirt Leads (Naturally) to a Discussion of the World War II and the Holocaust

›
Three fans of Axl Rose meet at a history of science conference On the first day of a history of science conference, I met the author working...
Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Rome-ing The World, from Kansas, to Iraq, to Kosovo, to the Eternal City

›
  Melanie Sanders Meier The last time I saw Melanie Sanders Meier in person was in 2009 when we were both deployed to Camp Adder, Iraq.  She...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Colin Powell, an Arduous Road to Great Success

›
  In 1958, when Colin Powell was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army, the former slave states still had Jim Crow laws in effect and...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Peaceful Transfer of Power and Change of Command

›
Most of my recent military service was during the Obama administration. I re-enlisted in August 2007, deployed to Iraq for a year in January...
Monday, August 10, 2020

America's Future: Combat Medic in Training

›
  Emily Burgett on Mount Monadnock just before enlisting  Eleven years ago, I wrote a lot of articles with the general title "Who Fight...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Satire: Good for Your War, Not Mine

›
Catch-22, whether the original book, the movie or the recent Hulu series, is a satire of Army Aviation in World War II.  The author, Jose...
Monday, May 28, 2018

On Memorial Day: Visiting the Grave of Major Richard "Dick" Winters

›
Major Richard Winters, 1918-2011 This morning I got a message on Facebook from Sarah Frye Gingrich. She was asking about a gravesite ...