my favorite song changes with my mood I'm with Mason on that, Doc...some days an open road and any hard drivin' ZZ Top tune and we'll be doing 90 before you know it. Other days a mellower approach is needed. I am of an age where the modern music doesn't do much for me...I have XM in my truc
Note to self: keep the pants on.
The six gents in New Jersey intended to do harm...the goal of that harm was no doubt to shake the confidence of the military at home...showing them to be vulnerable even here...to cause fear...hence...terror? When the 8th Air Force undertook the destruction of German industry and infrastructure they referred to their campaign as "terror bombing". In the first Gulf War, the intense air attacks preceding the actual ground invasion was so
HBW!...Good to see you in print. When will we be hearing from you on the JU again?
And too, the grunts...the fellas most likely to need that sort of thing, still got that in their advanced training...and of course they got to study it alot when they arrived at their permanent stations after training. And again let me say...they are damn good at what they do...I guess doctrine was that REMFs wouldn't need that stuff so why waste money on it in basic. Grenada changed all that thinking and we went overboard in the other direction...I
Why in the world would they quit teaching these techniques prior to the end of the Vietnam conflict in 1975? Or is that when they starting eschewing these grittier (but no doubt ass-preserving) tactics? We pulled out of Vietnam (thanks to congress cutting off the funds...sound familiar?) in 1973. By 19
Sometime in the early 80's, the accident statistics in USAREUR (US Army Europe) involving fuel truck drivers got to the point where the 4 star in Heidelberg wrote to the 4star in TRADOC (Training and Doctrine) and said in effect, "It is your problem...train it out". TRADOC contacted the Transportation Corps in Ft Eustis in Virginia asking if they c
I have about a 45 year perspective on this...I started basic in 1964...and every generation tells you how much tougher they had it. A lot of that is crap. However, it is a fact that while I was an active wanderer I saw first hand how the standards of toughness were "redefined" over the years. For a while in the seventies they quit teaching bayonet, hand to hand, creeping around in the dark, silent killing, knives, garrots, sticks and a lot of other
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord" Don't be discouraged by the noise levels created on the left side of the room. The majority...vast majority...of our citizens are good, honest and God fearing. We cannot ignore the attempts of the radical few who try to tear down the belief structure to serve their own agenda...but we should remember that they speak loud but not for us all.
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord" Don't be discouraged by the noise levels created on the left side of the room. The majority...vast majority...of our citizens are good, honest and God fearing. We cannot ignore the attempts of the radical few who try to tear down the belief structure to serve their own agenda...but we should remember that they speak loud but not for us all.
Chock rocks and field expedient NBC training! Brilliant as always Daddy Thanx, Geez, I can always count on you to appreciate the green side of things. Mannie had a great
Mannie and I worked together at two places...EUCOM in Stuttgart and FT Lost in the Woods, MO. We were in a group of VIP drivers at EUCOM that had to go to a series of special driving courses set up by the Air Force and one by the German Police. It was kind of like a "Dukes of Hazard" course for sedan drivers...and we got PAID for that stuff. A tough as na
Two or three times a week I had to go into Di An, the base camp for the Big Red One...1st Infantry Division. There were two ways to get into Di An, both of them were scary. The old Hwy 1 ran north out of Saigon into Bien Hoa, it was in poor repair and crowded and had little military traffic on it. Hwy 1A was newer, better repaired, more traffic, more military traff
Good to see so many interested in doing it right. My heart soared right after 9/11 when all the cars and pickups were flying flags and houses were getting flag poles. After a few weeks, I spent alot of time stopping in traffic to pick up flags that had blown off and were laying on the ground. At the science and transportation center of a local school district, I stopped and picked up their flag out of the street where it had lain for hours...no one
I always liked the range days. Ya done good.
There is a Ronnie who finished 5th in the light heavyweight arm wrestling championships this year representing Canada. There are a number of similiar names under the karate category...don't know if any of them are my Ronnie. One of these days, I may tell my own couple of 'Tales of the Chief...'
The challenge for Ronnie was to use the things he learned from the wonderful karate instructors he visited. He really didn't want to hurt anyone but he was always dying to try things out. At a drive-in movie snack bar he instigated a confrontation with three rowdy types so he could subdue them using only his feet. He walked into the tv room where several fe
Ronnie was about six foot tall and nearly 220 lbs. He was surfer good looking, casual, loose, and as free a spirit as I ever met. He came to Huachuca like the rest of us. If you got back from Nam with less than six months left, they discharged you and sent you home...if you had more than six months to go, they sent you somewhere to finish up. Most of the posts in
Yall look so young and fresh and skinny!
you tear a small hole in the center of the paper, you stick your finger in the hole, use your finger to wipe the poop outta butt, then wrap the piece of paper around your finger and wipe the finger clean. could that be where ms. Crow got her Idea from? You forgot the important part...save the little pie
double click...sorry
Always knew you were a swingin' chick.
Okay, now post the stop sign.
There must needs be opposition in all things, right?
In the same house as the long staircase that took out Mama's tailbone. Two or three in the morning...Chief wakes us to a sensation of intense heat...the bed is on fire. The Chief and Betty Lou always slept in the raw and had a bad habit of smoking in bed...mix that with the usual Saturday night intake and it is not good. This night it caught up with them. Jumping
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