Recent content by Jamesed

Unlike many who write on tactics and strategy I have had combat experience and military training. (Intelligence Officer) What determines the outcome of a war is the financial and natural resources of a nation and manpower. The nation that has the most natural resources and manpower will...

I think that is only natural. Fear is a NATURAL RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN. We humans are social animals. We like to have other people around us. Herd instinct. A single Horse is as Jumpy as a long tailed Kitty Cat in a room full of rocking Chairs. Put in another Horse (and a goat for more fun)...

(I guess that I didn't write one. I wrote one on the Veterans thread but I guess I should have written one here also. Any way I am a farm kid from Idaho. Never left the state until I joined the army and found myself in a glorious place in South East Asia. After Viet Nam I was Assigned to the...

I am 76 and lost my wife of 48 years last year. I guess that I am in better shape than most people here as I own some property in a rural area. Not a lot but enough to have some livestock. If you count a couple of horses, some Angora goats, some pigs and a whole dumpster load of cats as...

As a farm kid in Idaho I was always facinated by things that go BOOM. Making Nitro-glycerin in the basement at 14 years old was really somthing. O yea blew out a 1/4 mile section of BASALT from the Snake River Canyon Wall with the stuff. Maybe that is why my Mother died before her 60th...

There are two reasons that your computer (you noticed I kind of made your computer into a sentient being) does an update. One is for Security the other is that you have installed a new software application that requires something or opens up a vulnerability or conflicts with something else in...

When I was in the ARMY Reserve we had a Retirement ceremony for guys who were leaving. One of the senior Operations Sergeants was retiring. I thought he was just another reservist with no distinguishing service. He never war a combat patch or any Uniform Decorations. But on Retirement day he...

Gee I thought that the Military excelled in TEACHING "HURRY UP AND WAIT!!!!"

75 (76 Early October)

Thanks for all your kind words. I would like you to know that I don't know how to respond to the people who thank me for my service. I feel that it is I who should thank them. Through their TAX DOLLARS they made it possible for a farm kid from IDAHO to travel the world, meet all kinds of...

I think it has more to do with the acceptance of Drugs in our culture. I know that every state is on the road to the legalization of POT. However there has never been a definitive long term assessment of the effects of smoking pot. There does seem to be a high degree of mental issues with...

Ha yes Basic Training. Only two things I remember. Our training NCO was a SFC from the Philippines. He couldn't pronounce the word BOOTS. I remember him to this day "YOU GOT TO SHINE YOUR BUTTS EVERY DAY" Of course we knew he meant boots, but being the army it could just as well have been you...

Born and raised in Idaho. Joined the Army at 18 and became a Small Arms Repairman, (45B20) How did I wind up as a Helicopter weapons systems repairman (UH1C gun ships) in viet Nam is beyond me. (117 Avn Co.) Left the army when my time was up. Went to college and on freshman registration...