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, January 6, 2018

MRE vs. C-Rations: for me, the 21st Century MRE is the Winner!

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When I first enlisted in 1972, C-Rations, or more properly the MCI--Meal, Combat, Individual--was breakfast, lunch and dinner in the ...

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Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Preparing to Survive a Nuclear War, Or Not

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In 1977, one of my additional duties as a tank commander in West Germany was CBR NCO. I was the Chemical, Biological, Radiation Weapons S...

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Neil’s Best and Worst Books of 2017: Update With Full List

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Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature I had a few people who read this post ask me about the rest of the ...

Sunday, December 24, 2017

Dixie Pig, Motorcycle Racing and Missing my Tank

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I am watching the second season of "The West Wing." A suspect in a plot to kill the President in this late 1990s drama was arr...

Sunday, December 17, 2017

Who Fights Our Wars: Sons of Veterans

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Myles B. Caggins, III, promoted today to Colonel Today, I heard one of the best speeches of a man honored in his profession that I...

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Family Black Sheep Flies a MEDEVAC Blackhawk

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Brooklyn-born Amira Talifi, (not her real name) is a helicopter pilot I served with in the Army National Guard. She is one of seven ch...

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