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Showing posts with label Soldier's Life in Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soldier's Life in Iraq. Show all posts
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...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Who Fights Our Wars? Pamela Allen Bleuel

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On the left in this photo is the subject of a blog post I wrote in 2009 in Iraq.  She is Pamela Allen Bleuel, a tough, funny woman who ran...
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...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Movie Review: "Burnt by the Sun"

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Tonight my sons and I went to see the 1994 Russian movie "Burnt by the Sun" on campus.  Like a Greek Tragedy all the action...
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...
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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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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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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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 16, 2010

Medal Inflation (Background): Specialist Sunshine and Sergeant Oblivious

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When everyone dress alike personality almost jumps out of the camouflage clothes. Two guys who served together from the beginning of our de...
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