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Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Field Guide to Flying Death: Rockets and Missiles on the Apache Helicopter

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Apache Longbow Helicopter 38 rockets and eight Hellfire Missiles under its stub wings. Death flies in many forms. Two weapons very oft...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Field Guide to Flying Death: Artillery

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Royal Thai Army firing an M198 Howitzer, 155mm.  The 90-pound projectile jumps from the gun  at nearly a half-mile per second.  It can hit...
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Riding at Breakneck Speed, Literally, Almost Ended my Re-enlistment

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As in this crash, no one was hurt but me in my big crash. On May 9, 2007, at about 5 p.m., I started down Turkey Hill on River Roa...
Monday, May 1, 2017

Ten Years Ago: Closer to Re-Enlistment, One More Step

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On May 1, 2007, all the paperwork was approved for my re-enlistment, except one more approval. Jessica Wright, The Adjutant General of th...
Monday, April 24, 2017

Visited My Former Unit

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Echo Fuelers training for deployment to Afghanistan in 2012 I visited my former unit for the first time since I left the Army last year...
Friday, April 21, 2017

Riding in Hong Kong: Hostile Buses, a Big Hill

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[Before my ride from the Adriatic Sea, to the Black Sea, to the Baltic Sea this summer, I will be writing about the places I have ridden aro...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Dante's Inferno in Iraq: A Podcast

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This post is just a link to a podcast on Sectarian Review. The podcast is about the Dead Poets Society Book Group I led on Camp Adder, ...