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Sunday, July 17, 2016

Army Times Reports Army is Downsizing Public Affairs

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I had a good laugh this morning reading an editorial by a career public affairs sergeant bemoaning the fact that the Army is downsizing ...
Friday, July 15, 2016

Military Privilege: The Camouflage Exception to Rules

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Privilege of any kind is when you get to bend and break rules others don’t.   I have enjoyed many aspects of Military Privilege s...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

My Next Adventure: Ride South to North Across Russia and Former Soviet and Warsaw Pact Countries

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In mid-August of next year I am planning to ride north from Odessa, Ukraine, to Helsinki, Finland, by way of several former Soviet and Wa...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Book 18 of 2016, "SIN" by Zakhar Prelepin

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Among the many praises of Leo Tolstoy is that he was a real combat soldier who maintained the sensitivity to write about both war and peac...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

"Obama's Going to Take Our Guns" In the Army Paranoia is Normal

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At the end of January 2009, my unit mobilized for deployment to Iraq.  We trained for two months at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, before flying to ...
Friday, July 8, 2016

Soldiers Hate the Media, Even When They Work in Public Affairs

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Almost every soldier I have ever worked with, even soldiers in Military Public Affairs, hate the media.  I could understand it when I firs...
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Every Thursday, I Shave My Legs--Even in Iraq

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Since one of my first big bike crashes in 1994, I have shaved my legs every week, usually on Thursday before racing on the weekend.  I st...