History, religion, war, by a schizo vet trying to make sense of it all.
Link to TC 7-22.7 on armypubs.army.mil Doing a search through the new Army Noncommissioned Officer guide, the words PTSD, TBI, combat stress, or psychology are absent. How one can be expected to be a leader of soldiers but not be expected to have any clue what happens in a soldier's head is a dismal failure …
Continue reading New Army NCO manual fails to include mental health for leaders
The following was written originally for a military community so I will try to add as much context as possible. I have been listening to the Extortion 17 audiobook and it really hits me hard. I was on my third deployment in Afghanistan when they were shot down. 2011 was a pretty hard damn year …
Continue reading Inside the Vultures nest – Extortion 17 and the paper airplane.
Chapter 2 has been posted to Wattpad, check it out.
"Good afternoon sir, we are here to help you. How can we help you?" Well, a bullet came through my window. "Where is the window that is damaged?" Well, it used to be here, that was before a bomb blew up the rest of the house. "So you don't have a broken window?" I had …
Continue reading A wartime comedy – The broken window theory
Our military absolutely refused to come to the comprehension that no matter how hard we train for it, we are not fighting the grand Soviet American slugfest that had been publicly masturbated after for years and years. Not since WWII, the GREATEST FUCKING GENERATION! (News flash, no, you're not) have we fought ourselves a proper …
Once the gates have been broken there are always monsters on the edges, the fog, the water, the forest, the other side of the wall. In the Odyssey the Sirens represent the damage of war. They are ruinous, and they call to the soldiers, who are broken and drawn to dangers, blinded by ego or …
This is where I will be publishing JOTL officially. You can check out the first part, on the AQIZ enactment speech. JOTL on Wattpad
