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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Monday, February 19, 2018

My First Military Haircut, February 1, 1972

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The night before my Basic Training haircut. When I arrived at Lackland Air Force Base on February 1, 1972, among the first order of bu...

Sunday, February 11, 2018

An American Nazi and a Russian Nazi

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Prison In almost twenty years of service over more than forty years, I met some of the best people it has ever ...

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

The Topless Shoeshine Parlor: The Draft-Era Military Really was Different

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After Basic Training, the Air Force sent me to a technical school at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado. The base is now a comm...

Monday, February 5, 2018

The War We Won, In a Podcast

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In 1991 the Soviet Union ceased to exist. The Cold War ended. There was only one Superpower left in the world. China was still communi...

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Immigration and Surviving The Holocaust in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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On the eve of World War in the late 1930s, the original "America First" campaign turned away thousands of Jews who came to Ame...

Who Fights Our Wars? "Doc" Dreher, Blackhawk Pilot

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Darren "Doc" and Kate Dreher at the Aviation Ball Through Facebook, I just saw that a friend I deployed with in 2009-10 is...

Thursday, February 1, 2018

When is an Old Soldier Really Old?

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Young People, whatever their age, take needless, thrilling risks A 58-year-old retired sergeant major I served with in the 70th Armo...

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