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Recounting my days of high adventure in the Marine Corps, and publishing a little science fiction along the way.
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FLIGHT OF TEARS PART 3 (opens the original)
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Part 3 of 3Part 1Part 2The following morning, we enjoyed a fine breakfast buffet where I braced myself for the inevitable. This would take the form of Marines who were going to violate certain parameters we had given them the night before. I had pointed out during dinner that we weren’t exactly welcome in Mumbai and the press were looking for opportunities to sell more news
FLIGHT OF TEARS PART 2 (opens the original)
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Part 2 of 3Read Part one here.Marines openly flirted with stewardess as our flight path took us into Indian air space. Theories vary about what actually took place at this point, but what I think happened is our brilliant pilot used the wrong call sign while communicating to the Mumbai tower then tried to use a different one. They caught him in the act. Somehow, they found out there were 200 U.S. Marines on board and all hell broke loose. The mental image of a tower full of Indian air traffic co
THE FLIGHT OF TEARS (opens the original)
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Part One of ThreeSome time ago, I recounted the tale of The Longest Day in which we couldn’t possibly conceive of a flight to a combat zone being more arduous or lengthy. At the time we didn’t consider the fantastic possibilities of our epic return flight from said combat zone.The return home began with our ejection from the trailer park we were billeted in for seven months and transition into the concentration camp set u
Your 1stSgt also hates SURVEYS! (opens the original)
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You may remember my post about health assessments. I have even more ill will toward surveys and polls. Not only do they provide questionable data but the numbers can be configured to come up with nearly any outcome you like. A pollster once remarked that the key to survey research is to ask a question in such a way as to get the right answer. So who decides what the right answer is? It just so happens I have an opinion.</div
Flying Zombies, the worst kind… (opens the original)
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Al Asad, Iraq, 2009Due to the fact that we’d turned over most of the security missions to the Iraqis and eventually left them on their own program, our battalion had the opportunity to send a few Marines back home somewhat early. Of course, departing early didn’t mean vacation/party time as everyone we sent back was to attend a professional school in preparation for the next deployment to Afghanistan. Don’t feel bad, it was kind of our job.What it did mean was another round of the rigmarole of a
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