Brake Job for Dillard – An Ode to Military Humor
While I attended the Precision Measurement Equipment course (calibration technician course) in Denver, Colorado, I went to school from 6:00 AM to 12:00 PM five days a week. I had…
Bottled Furniture Swap – An Ode to Military Humor
I was stationed at a unit called the 5th Preventive Medicine Unit (PMU) in Seoul, South Korea. The fifth PMU was a rather interesting unit in several different ways. The…
Chains Beats Six Flags – An Ode to Military Humor
While I was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, I got out and did lots of different things in my time off. On quite a few occasions, I went with some…
Lost in the Dark – An Ode to Military Humor
I have this almost unexplainable ability to find my way around in the woods. During orienteering training at Fort Benning where I gave credit for my ability with maps to…
Airfield Driving Crash Course – An Ode to Military Humor
I have posted a couple of times about the 1961 Rambler American that I bought for my wife while I was in Denver, Colorado. Once I had all of the…
Firewood Cutting Squirt – An Ode to Military Humor
While I was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington, we burned a lot of wood in our wood-burning stove at home for heat. As a result, I needed to make at…
Moving on Up, Zooming on By – An Ode to Military humor
While I was stationed at the Electronic Proving Ground at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, my ultimate goal was to get accepted into Officer Candidate School (OCS). In order to do that,…
Pizza Party from Hell – An Ode to Military Humor
While I attended Officer candidate school (OCS) at Fort Benning, Georgia, one thing that we could always count on was pogey bait to lift morale. However, pogey bait was strictly…
Rambler Gas for Parts – An Ode to Military Humor
I had a need to teach my wife how to drive while I was stationed at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado for the Precision Measurement Equipment course (calibration…
Grand Canyon Cowboy – An Ode to Military Humor
It was just after Thanksgiving, in 1982, and my wife, my daughter, and I had just packed up our van for an extended trip. We were moving from Arizona to…