Category: Stories

Things that have happened to me, or that I made up…you decide…

War Stories

Sabre Tooth Tigers…

First Movement It had finally gotten dark and we were doing our final preparations before our movement. This was supposed to be a short mission. It would be less than 2 kilometers to the hide site. We were testing the new equipment that had been fielded to our battalion over the past few months. The […]

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War Stories

Tantric Sex Gods…

He was a devout Mormon, and relatively a nice person. I didn’t like him. I hated being on his team. Before I was stuck on the team, it was just him with Chad and Ryan. They were miserable under him but powerless. I stood up to him a little more and did things intentionally to […]

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War Stories Women and Men

The Box

At 8 AM it was gone.   I met her at the front door. I didn’t even greet her. I walked right past her and out to her old Toyota truck. It was a 1985 pickup with almost 400,000 miles. It had a cracked windshield and used tires, but it ran like a champ. She […]

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Rants

Proof That You’re Stupid…

There is an old proverb that says you shouldn’t judge a man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes. Well, I have small feet (6.5 extra wide…they’re like a little square…..Lego Man Feet), so I wouldn’t do well to put on some other dude’s big ass shoes. It’s hard to walk in shoes that are […]

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War Stories

Three Years Ago…

Tomorrow marks the third anniversary of me starting my transition leave from the Army. On March 3rd, 2005 I spent the day finishing the packing of my house and loading up the Penske truck. At midnight (on the fourth) I signed out on leave and a few hours later I was on the road. I […]

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War Stories

This Is How It Started…

[Note: I wrote this a couple of years ago, and some of you may have read it before. However, I wanted it to migrate to this blog, so bear with me.]   Bang! Bang! Pop! Pop! I didn’t even hear it, at least not consciously. Spending nearly seven months in Afghanistan had desensitized me to the […]

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