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Showing posts with label Old Soldier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Old Soldier. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Who Fights Our Wars? Southern Men

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I don't know the soldiers in this photo, but I do know that if we could find the home address of every one of them, two out of three ...
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...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

No Answer--What Goes Up Must Come Down the Same Way

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No answer yet on whether I can re-enlist or not.  I thought that meant no answer at all.  The administrative NCO in my unit thinks the dec...
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...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Tough Mudder vs. Ironman Triathlon

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Three weeks ago, I climbed out of the Lancaster YMCA pool and sat in the hot tub:  In 2 hours and 8 minutes I swam 4,250 yards.  In te...
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Monday, February 17, 2014

"Old" Soldiers on a Train

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Today on the train ride to Philadelphia I sat with Drew Cluley.  He works for Amtrak and is a squad leader in a PA National Guard Engine...
Friday, December 31, 2010

Perpetuating Mediocrity

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One of the reasons the motor platoon has such a high pass rate on the PT test is, oddly enough, that the training NCO for our unit is such a...
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Tough Mudder Pictures

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the event photographer posted some pictures form the event on line.  They found several mud-covered shots of me.  I am looking through their...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

Once a Warrior Always a Warrior

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Last week I got a book in the mail that I thought was just for real warriors. After all, most of my service was inside the wire on a very b...
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Jack is Back

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My Uncle Jack's response to my blog post on military rating systems: I believe you captured perfectly the essence of the rating system...
Sunday, February 28, 2010

Breakfast with Jack

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This morning I had breakfast with my Uncle Jack. He retired from active duty with the Air Force in 1978 and is currently living in the Orla...
Friday, February 26, 2010

Social Media Rule Change--Better for Bloggers?

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Today the military opened up the rules on social media--Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and the others will be authorized unless temporarily bloc...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Rain in Boston

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It rained all day and night in Boston on Wednesday and, alas, I did not get to see my sister or old friends because I was there just 36 hour...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Another Moral Lecture

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OK. I know I keep coming back to this topic, but today I was coaching one of the historians where I work about a public presentation she is...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The Hours are the Same, but the Clothes are WAY Better

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I got up at 6am today to catch the train from Lancaster to Philadelphia. My first of four meetings today was with our communications group....
Monday, February 22, 2010

Rank from the Outside

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Three officers were in charge of the company I served in. They were all First Lieutenants differing only in date of rank. So the senior 1s...
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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Chemical Warfare, Part 2

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Sometimes the footnotes illuminate and enliven a rather dull passage. In a section on civil defense Brown says, "Since it has to be ass...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Chemical Warfare, Part 1

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Just a few months before I decided to go back in the Army, I wrote about chemical warfare and spoke about it at my day job at Chemical Herit...
Friday, February 19, 2010

Medal Inflation, Part 3

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Now it's time to say how I fall squarely on both sides of the Medal Inflation issue. I wrote earlier this week about Sgt. Oblivious. W...
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