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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Friday, August 21, 2015

We Are NOT All Heroes!

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Major Dick Winters: This is what a hero looks like. On June 6, 1944, the day known around the world as D-Day, 1st Lieutenant Dick Win...

Monday, August 17, 2015

There Are Atheists in Foxholes: But they don't watch Fox News.

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Firing on the 300-meter pop-up target range On the morning we fired the M16, we arrived at drill an hour early. At morning formati...

Friday, August 14, 2015

BFF and the Change from Civilian to Army Acronyms

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When I joined the Army in 2007, social media was spreading across the world. Like every subculture, it began to have its own language and...

My First Writing Mentor: Clint Swift

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The Army made me a writer. In several blog posts, especially this one , I have written about how the combination of inspiration and fr...

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Paula Poundstone Embarassed Me in Iraq!

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Six years ago this month, Paula Poundstone made me collapse laughing. She went on a rant about Pop Tarts on "Wait Wait Don't Te...

My First Day in Iraq, May 2, 2009

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On my 56 th birthday, the ramp dropped in the back of the C-17 cargo plane at 1130 hours. We had taxied to the edge of the airstrip. ...

Monday, July 27, 2015

Trump Leads Chickenhawk Nation

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Recently soldiers I serve with have become public fans of The Donald for Commander in Chief. At first I thought they must not know how mu...

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