Friendly Fire Plagues 1st LAI During Persian Gulf I

Today’s meditation.

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Remnants of LAV-25 aftermath of friendly fire during Op DESERT STORM, 29 January 1991.

Nearly 10% of all Operation DESERT STORM’s casualties were suffered by one unit, Camp Pendleton’s 1st LAI Battalion. All of the units KIAs were caused by friendly fire.

In fact, most of those KIAs were grunts who had recently been transferred to the battalion to act as scouts for the advancing Light Armored Vehicles (LAVs).

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A Tick in her Ear

..apologies to Feydeau. But today i found one! Actually IN my ear! i didnt feel it, you dont feel ticks (except, in my experience, when they emerge on to your face and disturb the very sensitive, fine, invisible hairs we have there 
 maybe they’re like a cat’s whiskers? But by what i consider a … Continue reading A Tick in her Ear

Elections have consequences!

More heat!

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.yuh and not in a good way, sometimes. like when our country voted for Bygone-Hapless. oh yes i believe the 2020election was stolen, but it was done by concentrating on a few areas important to the electoral Vote. i do believe a plurality of voters, probally not all citizens, went for ol’ Jo[k]e.

Well—happy now, you shitheads?

now that our country is reduced to the status of international beggar? Now that we have no accomplishments of our own of which we can be proud? if Russia invaded US, i doubt many of you assholes would take up arms! too ”arrogant” for ya?

America! lets face it, weve had the best of ’er. Oh, she’ll linger on awhile, but our kids will be stuck with relieving her bedsores, cleaning ip her gruelly vomit, helping her to the toilet
.theyll never know the vigorous entity we knew.

You backing fustards who put Ol


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Winning the Peace (Ch. 4) Redux

Winning the Peace (WTP and/or WP – Willy Pete?), and the FAOs in the program are organized within each partner nation similarly to an infantry platoon reinforced. Platoon commander (O-5), platoon sergeant (E-8), corpsman, radio telephone operator (RTOs), squad leaders (O-4), fire team leaders (O-3), and grunts (enlisted advisors). The total number of individuals deployed … Continue reading Winning the Peace (Ch. 4) Redux

_Operation: FREE BIRD_, A Review

Based on a true story. Mine in case you didn’t know already.

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Hello, All!

[I was able to read a pre-publication version of this book, and purchased it on its release date.]

The wait for the next installment (Gotta love the title!) in the Campbell/Greene Adventures is over! Once again, the team of Douglas Kimball, with Simon Templar as his technical advisor extraordinaire, delivers the perfect weekend getaway or staycation book. The story takes up after the medical cliffhanger at the end of book one , “Virga Joy”. As Colin Campbell, recovers from typhoid at a military hospital in Germany, in hopes of completing his Marine enlistment and returning to Costa Rica, he showcases his jazz piano talents for fellow patients, staffers, and even Armed Forces Radio and Television.

Meanwhile, at the “Rancho del Piper Nigrum”, Colin’s friend and partner in business and adventure, botanist Alan Greene, who’d been hastily removed from Afghanistan – and his covert work there – keeps the


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