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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Saturday, December 2, 2017

First Sergeant Santamaria

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Like a black ash volcanic field, he seethes, he spouts, he sprays sulfurous jets. Young soldiers scurry when he strides in their di...

Monday, November 27, 2017

Eight Years Ago: Remote Refueling Site Drama

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Army All-Terrain Refueling Truck HEMMT Eight years ago, I was deployed in southern Iraq with an Army Combat Aviation Brigade. Amo...

Monday, November 20, 2017

SPQR and America

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Senatus Populusque Romanus The Senate and People of Rome Some of the soldiers I served with in Iraq talked about getting an SPQR tat...

Saturday, November 18, 2017

Cold War Hero Who Served After 1991

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Armand Lattes, Professor Emeritus of the University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the world faced a...

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...

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