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Shitting Pigeons on a Warm Summer Day – An Ode to Military Humor

By wright masters August 24, 2020Life is Strange, Off Duty Adventures

At Fort Benning, my off-duty time did not always consist of hanging out with friends and merely drinking and clubbing. Sometimes, hanging out with my friends meant driving around exploring…

Calibrating Korean Streets – An Ode to Military Humor

By wright masters August 23, 2020Military Duty

When I was stationed in Korea at the 5th Preventive Medicine Unit, I earned such a good reputation working in the motor pool that the first sergeant convinced the commander…

Cheap Junk Runt – An Ode to Military Humor

By wright masters August 22, 2020Military Training

I have briefly mentioned Fort Lost in the Woods (Leonard Wood), Missouri, here and there in several different posts. But I haven’t really talked about anything that happened there. Here…

Nights in Green Wool – An Ode to Military Humor

By wright masters August 21, 2020Military Life, Running and Drinking

During my time at Fort Benning, I had four different roommates in the barracks. My first roommate was the incumbent when I arrived, and he got out of the Army…

Parking with CCF Donut Holes – An Ode to Military Humor

By wright masters August 20, 2020Military Duty

When I drove for the CCF (Central Confinement Facility) at Fort Benning, I had a lot of downtime while the soldiers were performing their extra duties. The Sergeant in charge…

The Preacher and the Poll Climber Not – An Ode to Military Humor

By wright masters August 19, 2020Military Training

When I was going through basic training, they didn’t have these little timeout cards or stress cards in the Army that soldiers have now. But we did have a mechanism…

Car with the Magic Radio – An Ode to Military Humor

By wright masters August 18, 2020Car Problems, Life is Strange, Running and Drinking

While stationed at Fort Benning I owned a metallic brown metal flake 1968 Buick Wildcat. In my younger years, I was quite partial to big block Buick automobiles. In fact,…

Don’t Preach to Me – An Ode to Military Humor

By wright masters August 17, 2020Life is Strange, Military Duty

Previously I ended up pulling duty as the duty driver and driving up to Battalion AT to pick up a new WAC (Women’s Army Corps) who was assigned to the…

Orienteering between Raindrops – An Ode to Military Humor

By wright masters August 16, 2020Military Training

The rains had started at Fort Benning again, and raining usually generally always meant training. So, I figured that it wouldn’t be long before the company commander told us we…

Fiats Don’t Lie but Donuts Do – An Ode to Military Humor

By wright masters August 15, 2020Car Problems, Road Trip

It was turning out to be a spectacular summer at Fort Lewis. And the Fiat spider 2000 had been running mighty fine around town and on local trips. It was…