Happy Time Ferns – An Ode to Military Humor
I was working at Fort Huachuca, Arizona and living in Sierra Vista, Arizona. My Asian wife, daughter, and I lived in a second-floor apartment, and I worked at the Electronic…
Red Train to the Zoo – An Ode to Military Humor
I previously posted about a soldier in Korea being asked by a lady to go home to meet her ajumma. I want to stress that the scenario that I painted…
Chains’ Pet Peeves – An Ode to Military Humor
I previously posted about riding with some bikers while I was stationed at Fort Benning. If you’ve read a few of my posts, you might have read that one. Anyway,…
Yobo Seyo – An Ode to Military Humor
I previously posted about my first week in Korea and finally getting assigned to a unit. But before I could even get to my unit, the company ‘Radar’ whose name…
Happy Mountain Interlude – An Ode to Military Humor
The 5th PMU was alerted, if you can call it that, for its first field exercise about a month after I arrived in country. In a previous post I mentioned…
As Seen on TV – An Ode to Military Humor
After a week of sitting on my ass all day at the Turtle Farm in Seoul, South Korea, watching the American TV station AFKN, the personnel sergeant finally came up…
Bad Haircut on a Shit Farm – An Ode to Military Humor
After my time in Fort Benning, I had been reassigned to South Korea at my request. Yay, I think. Had I screwed up monumentally? Only time would tell, but all…
When it Rains it Snows – An Ode to Military Humor
You know the old cliché, if it ain’t raining, it ain’t training. Well, it had been raining steadily ever since we had been alerted for movement to the field. The…
OPFOR Lost in the Mud – An Ode to Military Humor
The other day, I wrote about a field exercise we were participating in at Fort Lewis to prepare for a flyaway deployment with the Signal Battalion. I also talked about…
OPFOR Gone Wild – An Ode to Military Humor
At Fort Lewis, training usually meant raining. You know, if it ain’t raining, it ain’t training. We had to deploy to the field in preparation for an upcoming flyaway deployment…