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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Sunday, July 8, 2018

Animal Farm: George Orwell's Story of the Soviet Union and Revolution

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The original title, Animal Farm: A Fairy Story On July 3, I was talking to a friend who mistrusts politics of every kind. After thin...
Saturday, June 30, 2018

Who Fights Our Wars: Sgt. 1st Class Thomas, Gospel Worship Leader, Tanker

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In the 70s chaplains came to the Army with graduate degrees and credentials as Priests, Pastors, or Rabbis from their religions....
Sunday, June 17, 2018

Who Fights Our Wars? CSM Donald C. Cubbison, 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division

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In the fall of 1977, 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division got a new Command Sergeant's Major.  Donald C. Cubbison, veteran of the Vietna...
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Thursday, June 14, 2018

AIM-9 Explodes on the Test Stand

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--> AIM-9 Sidewinder missile fired from an F/A-18C My job in the Air Force was Aging and Surveillance Testing of mis...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Tanks from Inside, Tanks from Outside: The Huge Difference

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The podcast Sectarian Review just did an episode on Philip Roth. It included a passage from American Pastoral using a military tank as a...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

My New Breakfast Club--Jewish Draft-Era Veterans

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In November of last year, I started going to the Wednesday morning Minyan prayer group at a synagogue in Lancaster City-- Congregation Sh...
Monday, May 28, 2018

On Memorial Day: Visiting the Grave of Major Richard "Dick" Winters

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Major Richard Winters, 1918-2011 This morning I got a message on Facebook from Sarah Frye Gingrich. She was asking about a gravesite ...
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