Category: Christianity

Blackwater – patriotic mercenaries or license to be killed?

The infantryman’s only private sector equivalent job is mercenary.  One downside to the merc good money gig is risk.  Back in the day, Blackwater shooters were approximately 8 times more likely to be killed than our uniformed personnel; and although data is not completely reliable, contractors (conducting direct military type assistance vice cooking and cleaning) probably suffered more … Continue reading Blackwater – patriotic mercenaries or license to be killed? →

Hauling Baby Rosita to Costa Rica’s La Migra

So there I was with a pickup load of Nicaraguans that I was hauling to the immigration office in Puerto Viejo near where my friends in the Comando Atlántico were quartered. In the bed of my truck were the five teenage boys who have taught me how to stay alive surrounded by poisonous snakes, and up … Continue reading Hauling Baby Rosita to Costa Rica’s La Migra →

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Pink Mangos

All This Talk of Shooting Ranges Has Put Me to Thinking… 

…and remembering the time I first fired the Soviet “Star” pistol. The story goes like this: I was alone and unafraid (again) in some province outside of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia reconning a military base to see if we might embed some Marines there as part of an enlisted development program that I had initiated. Just me, … Continue reading All This Talk of Shooting Ranges Has Put Me to Thinking…  →

Perhaps One’$ Last Chance to Be a Hero?

https://www.themozartgroup.com/#services I can vouch for the founder.

Movie Night: Contractor

Except for the opening shot, lily-white. https://youtu.be/Z8nkc2KKjd8

By Request: Bible Verses for Reflection, John 1:3b-5.

Greetings, All! By request, a spur to meditation on light and darkness: "What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." [The Gospel of John, Chapter 1, verses 3b-5, New American Bible: Revised … Continue reading By Request: Bible Verses for Reflection, John 1:3b-5. →