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Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Riding in Fog: Every Sound Grabs My Ears

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On the eve of my bicycle trip across Easter Europe, I was thinking about riding in fog. Of all the places I have ridden in the world, the...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

Tanks are Symphony of Roars and Rattles

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The M60A1 Patton tank that was my home and weapon in West Germany was a symphony of sound I could never quite describe in prose, so I tried...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

Memorial Day for an Old Soldier

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World War I veteran. I'm not THAT old! This year I am completely out of the Army after all the ambiguous years in which I was over ...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Riding in China: Sprinting Away from a Snake

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In July 1999 I made my first trip to China. It was a direct trip to Beijing and back. Between April 1998 and July 2001 I went overseas ev...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Field Guide to Flying Death: A Gun Wrapped with an Airplane

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The slowest and most nearly perfect aircraft flown by the U.S. Air Force is the A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog" ground support fi...
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...