“Alright as we bring this meeting to a close,” The Colonel said from the head of the long table that dominated the conference room, “I just wanted to address a personal pet peeve of mine that is going to start becoming an issue again shortly.” My ears perked up, I stopped doodling in my notebook,ContinueContinue reading “Check Your Hubris at the Door: Mud”
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Check Your Hubris at the Door: The Colonel Wants to See You
“I see your patch,” the Colonel said, foregoing any formal greeting of any kind. He had zeroed into the two-inch stitch of cloth announcing my status as a basic free-fall parachutist as he ushered me into his office from the waiting room, “can I take it that you are an Academy grad?” “Yes sir,” IContinueContinue reading “Check Your Hubris at the Door: The Colonel Wants to See You”
Check Your Hubris at the Door: A Lieutenancy Retrospective
With May, and the end of my four years as a Lieutenant in the Air Force, rapidly approaching I thought it would be somewhat appropriate to put together a collection of stories that have occurred over the past few years. Some of these stories happened to me, and some of them happened to others. IndividualsContinueContinue reading “Check Your Hubris at the Door: A Lieutenancy Retrospective”
AAR: Al Udeid In Review
I could not believe how good Germany smelled. After 195 days breathing the heavy, humid air at Al Udeid Air Base, air that was quite often thick with the scent of sewage and/or diesel exhaust, the crisp, pine tinged air in Western Germany nearly brought me to tears. A quick jog over to the BaseContinueContinue reading “AAR: Al Udeid In Review”
The Deployment Chronicles, Chapter 1
This line is f***ing heinous. It was early February, and I had been standing in line at the Baltimore Airport for over three hours, with little to no movement. The vast sea of uniforms in front of me represented the wide gamut of patterns and styles across all branches of the US military. As theContinueContinue reading “The Deployment Chronicles, Chapter 1”