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, February 13, 2017

Barracks Talk, Locker Room Talk and Old Soldiers

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A few short years ago, when I was 59 years old, I was assigned to a field barracks in Northern Michigan with a unit I had never trained o...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Volunteer Army Consolidated Mess

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Consolidate Mess line, or German prisoners marching out of Stalingrad? In almost every way, I liked the draft Army and the Cold War Ar...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

One Last Haircut: World War II Vet Shares a Story After Forty Years

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Elias King learned to cut hair while serving as a gunner’s mate on a destroyer in the Pacific during World War II.   When I met him in 198...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

"...No Time for That, Gussman:" Book Report 2016, Fiction

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Lt. Col. Scott Perry, Blackhawk Pilot, Battalion Commander, in Iraq, 2009 In December of 2009 Scott Perry, my battalion commander, bur...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Band of Brothers: Book and Video

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One of my favorite memories from the 1-70th Armor barracks in Wiesbaden, West Germany, was the night we watched "The Green Beret...
Friday, January 27, 2017

Blood and Money: The NATO Alliance

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NATO, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has been in the news for months. For the first time since the organization was created, an ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Of Course I am Happy! I Know Who the Enemy Is!

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In October 1976, I was on patrol on the East-West German border at Fulda. I saw Soviet tanks on the other side of the border.  We had arr...
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