Something I posted 8 years ago, to a resounding "thud." It's about heroism - how it shows up looking nothing like the heroism you see on TV. And in the damnedest people.

Hero

The Powers That Be

Back in the day before adults abandoned the halls of Congress, there used to be adult discussions of just what the military services needed to combat the looming Communist menace. Joint Chief generals would...

So the year is fuck if I can remember. Place YTC (Yakima Training Center) Time AT (Annual Training). And Now for The rest of the Story. Sorry Walter Cronkite.....

So this is kinda a funny thing.

So Pappy was a former squid. I don't remember how long he was navy but he transferred to the WANG yes i know funny acronym. Stands for Washington Army National Guard and kind of reliant to the story.

He...

The Rolling Stones were blaring their inability to get satisfaction out of the radio on the dash of the ’54 Merc as we blasted down the highway past the paper mill.

The 4-barrel carburetor had just been ‘adjusted’ with a piece of wire we snipped out of my buddy Dave’s fence.

Even though the monstrously heavy boat of a Mercury had a V-8 it only delivered 161HP so you had to let it wind up for miles...

This one is courtesy of my father who was in the Royal Navy in the ‘60s, ‘70s & ‘80s.

Once the letters to family and friends had been written, sailors would start writing to companies to try and elicit free swag. It generally worked pretty well.

One guy has the idea of writing to a well known razor manufacturer (WS). He told them how amazing their safety razors were and that he had been using the...

OC's video, sharing a personal story from his veteran colleague Wilf, who revealed his own experience and story of Dunkirk. https://youtu.be/tLMP6xGODCQ

Thien Vu' - A Vietnamese warrior.

In Vietnam I always knew that out there, somewhere, was that VC Super Guerrilla, could be a she, might be a he - In this recounting I am going with she. Thien Vu' been a keen young Sapper during the Japanese occupation and the French Indochina war, and had survived into middle age to fight this new bunch - the Running Dog American Imperialists, us. She was wise in...

So long story short, I’m a product of a one night stand with a foreign soldier. I was told the same story my whole life but now that I’m older I’m starting to have questions.

So backstory. (From what my mom & my file told me.) My mom was young and dumb; got wasted at a bar in CO. Met my dad who was in the military (army I think) stationed in CO but was from another country. She doesn’t remember...

I lurk here a lot because a lot of my uncles and father served in the service and I've heard a lot of funny stories so I thought I'd share.

My uncle John is one of the hardest working guys I know. He went into the air force as young as he could and did 30 and retired doing telecommunications. This was way back in the 70s and 80s.

Anyway, he got into the business of splicing coax for...

In 1994, I was in the Army, stationed at Fort Davis, Panama. At that time, I had a roommate named John Parker (not real name) from Texas. Parker was one of my best friends, and a terribly funny, smart, really weird guy. Not weird in a bad way, just weird in a really interesting way. He wore cherry red Doc Martens, shaved his head, had tons of tattoos, and drank wine. One day, this kid Vickers in...

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Fine, I'll write up the story. But you're also gonna have to read a bunch of backstory. I kind of chaptered it so skip to the coin part or the SMA part if you just want that. Most of it is about my first couple months at fort bliss and my time with the afgani refugees.

I just got back from the hospital and am procrastinating summoning the energy to go to the gym and lift...