Archive for 'Infantry OCS'
Black Hills house almost ready
OCS classmate Bob Phillips is finally almost ready to move into his own private retirement home in South Dakota after years of prosecuting in San Diego. “After we’re in,” he says, “it can blizzard all it wants.” Funny, but it doesn’t look as snowy there as in Dallas or, for that matter, in Georgia.
Posted: February 13th, 2010 under Infantry OCS, Weather/Climate.
Tags: Black Hills, Bob Phillips, retirement, South Dakota
Comments: none
When veterans turn petty
Well, I’m now being censored at my OCS alumni group email list by the Brooklyn member who took over management of the Yahoo site after the original, Illinois, organizer had a stroke and heart attack.
Whenever I try to reply to a certain California party with whom I have “had words” in the past, my reply [...]
Posted: February 2nd, 2010 under Blogosphere, Infantry OCS.
Tags: censorship, Infantry OCS, petty veterans
Comments: 2
Frozen New River
Claude Cooper, our OCS alumni group’s president-for-life, took this shot because he lives nearby. It’s the North Carolina source of the very old New River which flows north to become one of West Virginia’s major water ways. Too many rapids for it to freeze there, but not here in NC with its recent record freezes. [...]
Posted: January 11th, 2010 under Infantry OCS, Weather/Climate.
Tags: AGW, Anthropogenic Global Warming, mini-Ice Age, New River, North Carolina, West Virginia
Comments: 2
Brrrr
Gad, it’s cold. Hovering at 30 degrees at the Rancho and headed down to 22 overnight. I know it’s worse in most places north and east of us. Tom Higdon, an OCS buddy in southwestern Missouri, emails that it’s 4 degrees where he is, with minus 6 expected. We’re not used to this kind of [...]
Posted: January 7th, 2010 under Infantry OCS, Rancho Roly Poly, Weather/Climate.
Tags: Central Texas weather, Infantry OCS
Comments: 2
The “live axle” Morgan
Chatter on our OCS email group not so long ago turned to one fellow’s ownership of a forty-nine-year-old Austin-Healey. Reminded me of what I did on our Xmas break in 1967.
After discovering I had been dumped by my college girlfriend for a civilian, I spent the time sleeping in the bath tub of my sister’s [...]
Posted: January 5th, 2010 under Infantry OCS, Scribbles.
Tags: Austin-Healey, Infantry OCS, live axle, Morgan
Comments: 3
Feeling like Jeremiah Johnson
Meaning the mountain man of the old movie, not the running back for the Houston Texans. That’s how our OCS class president-for-life, Claude Cooper, is feeling after several days without power at his rural home in the North Carolina mountains. First the blizzard buried them, then an ice storm blew in and down came the [...]
Posted: December 27th, 2009 under Infantry OCS, Weather/Climate.
Tags: Blackberry, December to Remember, Infantry OCS, Jeremiah Johnson, North Carolina blizzard, winter '09, wireless signal
Comments: none
Leaving Afghanistan
Fellow OCS grad Tucker Smallwood, who I have known and argued with since college days, opined the other day on our class email list that Barry should withdraw all the regulars while sending in the advisers, accompanied by air, artillery and medevac. Just as he and I did it in Viet Nam. I agreed but, [...]
Posted: November 12th, 2009 under Afghanistan, Infantry OCS, Obamalot, The War, Troops.
Tags: Afghanistan, Barry, Obama, Obamalot, Taliban, Tucker Smallwood
Comments: 2
Aurora
Don’t recall where I got this, but it’s in honor of David Nelson, an old OCS classmate in MA, who awoke this morning to thirty-four degrees and heavy snow. As he says: "Good infantry weather!"
Via AlphaInventions.
Posted: October 16th, 2009 under Infantry OCS, Science/Engineering, Space, Troops, Weather/Climate.
Tags: Aurora, heavy snow, Infantry OCS, snow
Comments: 2
Aurora
Don’t recall where I got this, but it’s in honor of David Nelson, an old OCS classmate in MA, who awoke this morning to thirty-four degrees and heavy snow. As he says: "Good infantry weather!"
Via AlphaInventions.
Posted: October 16th, 2009 under Infantry OCS, Science/Engineering, Space, Troops, Weather/Climate.
Tags: Aurora, heavy snow, Infantry OCS, snow
Comments: 2
Leaving The Alamo
My self-published book of short stories, available for free in pdf in the upper part of the sidebar on the blog’s main page, or for a mere eleven bucks in paperbook at the link above it, has a new fan. Lucky for me, he even posted an appreciation on his own blog. Thank you.
Posted: August 14th, 2009 under Blogosphere, Infantry OCS, Library, Rancho Roly Poly, Scribbles, Viet Nam.
Tags: Dick Stanley, Leaving the Alamo, short stories, Simply Jews, Snoopy the Goon
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