THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Seems like only yesterday…
Actually it was at noon on June 3, 1968, which is roughly 15,147 yesterdays. The magic day and time I graduated from the Benning School for Boys.
Sounds like a reform school for “troubled” youth. In a way, it was. Considering that it was a one-way track that led straight to the infantry [...]

These are the men of 60th Company, OC 504-68, who were killed in Vietnam. We graduates of that 1968 class of Infantry Officers Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, commemorate them each Memorial Day weekend.
One graduate:  1LT Jacob Lee Kinser.
Two Tactical Officers:  CPT Reese Michael Patrick and 1LT Daniel Lynn Neiswender.
Four drop-outs:  CPL Sherry Joe [...]

Bob Phillips, an OC-504 comrade who served as a San Diego assistant district attorney for many years says the allegedly-racist Arizona anti-illegal immigration law isn’t new:
“…at least as I understand it, doesn’t change the existing law at all, except maybe to encourage Arizona cops to be more proactive in doing what the Border [...]

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.

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]