Veteran AF

Veteran of four wars, four enlistments, four branches: Air Force, Army, Army Reserve, Army National Guard. I am both an AF (Air Force) veteran and as Veteran AF (As Fuck)

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Monday, May 12, 2008

Urban Combat

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Today was Urban Combat training. We jumped through windows, moved along buildings, threw grappling hooks and built firing positions in a mo...

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Eased Restriction for Mother's Day

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I was home from 530 to 10pm this evening because the commander gave many soldiers passes for Mother's Day. So the restriction to post w...

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Still Wearing a Borrowed Steel Helmet

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Today we were supposed to get new field gear--two duffle bags full of it. But the Strykers went through the deployment processing facility...

Friday, May 9, 2008

Physical Today and the Square Needle in the Left Nut

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I just got four vaccinations, which is the maximum, not 8 or 9 as yesterday's rumor had it. Speaking of rumors, I asked a couple of...

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More paperwork

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Today was paperwork all morning--wake up at 0430--and into the afternoon followed by two-hour break, then a class on promotions, dinner and ...

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Dramatic to Deadly Dull

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After choke holds, claymore mines, and combatives today was the opposite. I spent the morning in a classroom with 250 other soldiers review...

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Combatives!!

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Today we had three classes. The first was hand grenades. For that class, I was the left-handed demonstrator. The third was claymore mines...

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