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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Change of Responsibility: When Top Sergeants Change Jobs

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When a new first sergeant or command sergeants major becomes the top non-commissioned officer in a company, battalion, brigade, division...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Old Home Week: Meeting My Roommate from Wiesbaden in Baltimore

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Tomorrow I am driving to Baltimore to meet my roommate at Lindsay Air Station, Wiesbaden, West Germany in 1978.  Then he was Sr. Airman C...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Marking the 14th Anniversary of 9-11

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The 9-11 Memorial today on the campus of Franklin and Marshall College : 2,936 flags in the center of the campus to honor the victims...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

Writing About the Army, and Writing on Paper with a Pen

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My first real writing job was in the Army.  I started writing on yellow pads with blue felt-tip pens.  But working for an Army newspape...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

The Better Life is, the More We Bitch

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In June 1975, 40 years ago, I enlisted in the Army.  I had been a civilian about ten months after a 2-and-a-half years in the Air Force....
Friday, August 28, 2015

New Writing By Recent Veterans

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Just got this in my email.  Free book available by PDF download.  Writing by recent veterans of America's wars.  Check it out here . E...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Today Marks My IRONMAN Annivarsary

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One Year Ago, One Tired Dude One year ago today I was in the middle of the most tiring day of my life, the 2014 Kentucky Ironman .  A...