At Fort Benning, The Benning School for Boys, aka the Infantry School, I was a good shot, good at hand-to-hand…
We were buzz-cut dead-drunk skunks at Dead shows before Jerry Garcia got mostly dead. We whirled dust devils west of Sin City into the panties of the world’s prettiest prick-tease of a faultline
Calvo n me n Cali … busted
you and me in my humvee got pulled over in the desert i got busted down that rank, lost the…
When not allowed to kill, a soldier will fuck … all the wrong things … and v.v.
Fort Benning, Georgia, 1988
Git yersel’ a humvee and a helmet. Live, eat, dont/sleep, shit, drink diesel-dust and suck jet fuel with dickheads in…
My Detective-Sergeant Joe Friday days in LA
I drove home just now from work, listening to the NPR radio Sunday night old-time radio shows. I missed “Gunsmoke”…
Us waste-tribe of retard-lieutenants, our asbestos brains, shot-glassed, in JP-4
Us waste-tribe of retard-lieutenants, our asbestos brains shot-glassed in JP-4
Airborne refuses peace pipe
Airborne refuses peace pipe Reaches for gulping exhausts ” breathe , soldier , breathe , keep the dime , on the , sightpost ” Out the tailpipe in the mouthpipe
Bachelor Officers’ Quarters, Fort Benning, GA, 0430L
Dirty socks. Cocks take robins ‘round the bend Never send them flowers ever again Laugh and grin not within To…
DMZ Retard LT: ¿ As Platoon Leader, why didn’t I rotate troops through the airy cupola to navigate and man the 50-cal of our M113 APC those below-freezing rain-snow zero-dark-thirty road-marches ?
DMZ Retard LT: ¿ As Patrol Leader, why didn’t I have each soldier take turns humping the PRC-77 radio instead of ridiculous mountain-turtle-me with it pasted onto my tortoise-belly ?
DMZ Retard LT: ¿ As Patrol Leader, why didn’t I have each soldier memorize the azimuth & klicks for one leg, instead of just me, all ?
Watching my waste-birds of Death Valley
Those young lieutenants, end of evening nautical twilight
180 miles east of Los Angeles’ pointless summers ran shaven, heady, lieutenants low-spark’d, high-heel’d, bat-faced wayward boys, they counted coup…
Our asbestos brains … brined, baked, beholden in Death Valley
Our asbestos brains brined, baked, beholden, the length, the breadth, the depth, of Death Valley
A lesson-learned in my 1st of 157 weeks at the Army’s National Training Center
A lesson I learned from the Army equivalent of 29 Palms: Hey Pork Chop, Pearls Before Swine At Fort Irwin,…
Those young lieutenants … epicenter-each
180 miles east Los Angeles’ useless summers those shaven, heady lieutenants epicenter’d the low-spark triangle of angel devil death, unnatural
Us waste-tribe of retard-lieutenants: formless, gormless, black-lung’d n asbestos-brain’d v3
Us waste-tribe of retard-lieutenants, discarded, of no-fixed-address in the days before the wars Timbo Buckaroo J-Dub Miller Monty One-Two-Alpha lived…
Our asbestos brains shot-glassed in Mojave jet-fuel
Those January rainy zero-dark-thirty’s Shivering behind the M1 Abrams tanks Best space heater ever Our asbestos brains Got ball-peen shot-hammered…
Us waste-tribe of retard-lieutenants
Us waste-tribe of retard-lieutenants, discarded, of no-fixed-address, Timbo, Buck, J-Dub & I were stationed 44 miles north of here, zackly…
“Welcome to One-Five”
In the Western Corrider of the Republic of Korea, I stepped off the Turtle Farm bus at the 1st Battalion,…
My leadership failure at The US Army National Training Center, FTICA
Callsign Scorpion-One-Eight-Alpha, I didn’t seek out & join the OPFOR (opposing force) Callsign Scorpion-One-Two-Alpha, he, did He got…
One fine day the Army will have you itching yer anus
Oh, sure, be as Ivy-League as you wannabe, Mr Rhodes Scholar but one fine day the Army will have you…
Hunt’s “NODS Appreciation Night” … Major Vialpondo medevac’d
Another OPD was on the ice-covered Camp Howze obstacle course at night w NODs. That OPD scared me. At the…
Hunt’s “Terrain Appreciation” runs
Re Korea, Task Force Smith … COL David Hunt took us to the top of Gloster Hill for an OPD…
LT Mark Davis, latter-day love-child of Lamar Jackson and The Gronk
COL David Hunt took us to the top of Gloster Hill for an OPD as part of his “Terrain Appreciation”…
Buckaroo Banzai @ Fort Irwin Death Valley, Matt and I were tight.
Buckaroo Banzai’s At Fort Irwin Death Valley, Matt and I were tight. He got to know my San Clemente grandparents,…
Men of uncertain ages. On motorbikes. Fuck.
We are men with children and many cupholders Our hair graying, cocks sagging Powers turning to fairy dust All the…
Fort The Irwin: Out past the light-line
say you drive out past the light-line take an orange out of a chest of ice and place it in…
Onslow Beach, Camp LeJeune: Tampons in the shitters
[ Day 8 of 3-month training exercise w Army boats on Onslow Beach, USMC Camp LeJeune, NC. ] S-3: “S-4!”…
Fort Irwin: Final Net Call
“All stations this net!” “Final Net Call” happens in the Mojave Desert, 1 hour before LD-time, say 0400L, zero-dark-thirty, before…
Fort The Irwin: Buckaroo Banzai and his fucking HIND-D in the desert
Buck’s 1/52 OPFOR Infantry VISMODs, Bimps, Burrdums & Meatballs for terra firma fun that goddamn HIND-D gunship helicopter he’d buzz…
Buckaroo Banzai and his fucking HIND-D, in the desert, all of us L. I. D.
Buck’s 1/52 OPFOR Infantry VISMODs, Bimps, Burrdums & Meatballs for terra firma fun that goddamn HIND-D gunship helicopter he’d buzz…