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Saturday, November 11, 2017

Why is Veteran's Day Today? Who is a Veteran?

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Almost 20 years ago when I had been a bearded civilian for more than a decade and was still almost ten years away from re-enlisting...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Field Guide to Flying Death: MAD--Mutually Assured Destruction

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The 60s was the heyday of “Mad Magazine” and MAD as the centerpiece of our Cold War strategy. MAD—Mutually Assured Destruction —became ...
Saturday, November 4, 2017

My Last Tanker Nickname: Oddball

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Donald Sutherland as Oddball, a tank commander in the movie "Kelly's Heroes" I got my last tanker nickname more t...
Saturday, October 28, 2017

Field Guide to Flying Death: ICBMs (InterContinentalBallistic Missiles)

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LGM-30 Minuteman III ICBM. The name of every type of missile describes how far it flies. So an ICBM, or Intercontinental Ballistic Mis...
Friday, October 20, 2017

Real Senior Moment and a Book About the Iraq War

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I just had a real senior moment about a book about PTSD. The book, Thank You For Your Service  by David Finkel will be released soon as ...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Best Day in the Army and The Best Job I Ever Had

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Two weeks ago I started writing about the best day of my life as a soldier out of the 6,575 days (18 years) I served in uniform. That d...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Different Water for Sinks and Toilets--Camp Beuhring, Kuwait, and Amtrak

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On the train to Philadelphia recently, the toilets had water, but the sinks did not in the last two cars. I walked three cars away from m...