Military stories from past to present, both wars.

Thanks Guys

Thursday, March 1st, 2007 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

Dear Gang,I want to thank all the Folks who voted for the Sandgram. I owe it all to Maj Pain at One Marines View for helping me out through the year and I say he is NUMBER ONE in the ...

Wax on, Wax Off

Monday, February 26th, 2007 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

Dear Gang, Being the hard charging reservist that I am, I decided, against all good advice, to enroll into the Marine Corps Marshal Arts Program (MCMAP) to earn my Tan belt. This program, the brainchild of a certain high-ranking officer, combines ...

Happy Post VD day

Thursday, February 15th, 2007 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

Nothing says love like… A Japanese toilet (photo from Cheryl Friend,: )If you want to give your spouse a gift that will leave a meaningful memory, if it doesn’t cause a divorce, buy a high-tech Japanese toilet like I found ...

Who cares??

Friday, February 9th, 2007 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

You know it’s a sad state for our country when I land only to see all the news channels reporting Anna Nicole Smith died today in a hotel down in Florida. Here is the problem with our country, they ...

Rambo…

Monday, February 5th, 2007 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

This email comes from Captain John Hunt, US Army in Afghanistan. It's a great update and one that I thought you would like to read.S/FTacoOur guy Rambo in Afghanistan..................Hi everyone. I'm still alive but freezing my tail off. We ...

Part two…

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

This is part two to "Don't count your chickens"She then called the reserve P-3 squadron at Willow Grove to tell the Navy that her loving husband was dead, and to find out who she needed to send the death ...

Don’t count your chickens…

Monday, January 29th, 2007 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

Sometimes, the truth is stranger then fiction. I think this post should be sent to “Cold Case Files,” but I’ll leave it up to you, the readers out there in Cyberland to determine who did what to whom.When I ...

Lessons learned…

Monday, January 22nd, 2007 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

It’s been a year since I started writing on Blogspot over in Iraq. I owe it all to Major Pain over at One Marines View for all of his help and time while I struggled to learn the code. Now ...

Now the Rest of the story…

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

Walking out of my room into the Corpus muggy August morning, I slowly recited my emergency procedures for the days flight. Crossing the grass, I looked up to see my blue Chevy S-10 and part of it was covered in ...

The Birds

Friday, January 12th, 2007 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | No Comments »

The five flight students were sitting outside their room on the third deck of the Bachelor Officers Quarters (BOQ) in Corpus Christi, Texas, enjoying some afternoon adult beverages while watching the sun start its’ slow descent to the west. ...