[Ed. note: Prior pieces in this series found at AMST 1, AMST 2, AMST 3, AMST 4, AMST 5, and AMST 6.] I began this series with a brief look at Bud Holland’s actions vìs a vìs the Fairchild AFB crash. The reconstruction of how that all happened, right down to Holland’s...
AMST 5
My Turn! [Author note - the other issues of AMST are probably worth a read to get full context. #1 - #2 - #3.] Summer, 1994 By summer, I’m closing in on PQM - and starting to get some of my “X’s” (graded flights) for Attack Helicopter...
Aviation Mishaps 4
Four.
AMST-3
Spring 1993 - Beginnings and Endings... [Author note: It will probably help if you read AMST-1/Intro and AMST-2 before reading this one for background and context.] When Marines Still Wore Choker Whites - in the background, the CO holds our newest daughter We are...
AMST-2
Part 2.
Aviation Mishaps: Part 1, an Introduction
I'll get to this story (eventually) There I was… in the Ready Room When I was a youngling wanna-be pilot in the post-Top Gun Era of the early ‘90s, there was a military aviation magazine called “Approach” that populated all of the Ready Rooms where we wannabes sat and...
Covid-19 and Milgram’s Legacy – That Could NEVER Happen Here!
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The Wisdom of a “Helicopter Parent” AKA “It’s a LOT Longer than You Think”
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The Last People Who Can Refuse the Vaccines: A Lesson in Orwell and Newspeak
No? Whattaya mean “no”?!
Detritus of a Restless Mind 8: The fraud of it all
Still timely!
Detritus of a Restless Mind 7 (DORM 7) – Better than Fast and Furious!
Well, more like “breaking analysis”.
The Spark: Epilogue
Fin.
The Spark: Chapter 10
10. We are at Part 10.
The Spark: Chapter 9
Part 9.
Detritus of a Restless Mind, Pt. 6 – Time for Heroes to Get in the Boat
Part 6.
Detritus of a Restless Mind, Part Quintile – Black Pills and Medical Autocracy
Buckle up…
The Spark: Chapter 8
Part 8.
Detritus of a restless Mind – Pt. IV, Content Filler for Glibdom
Timely stuff! Lawsuits! What’s not to like?
The Spark: Chapter 7
After his first stop at the convenience store near his apartment for a drink he knew he had surveillance. By the time he left his second stop he identified which surveillance team was following him.
The Spark: Chapter 6
She tells me she gave up her teaching job. She’s laughing. “They said learn to code, so I did.” She looks more beautiful than I’ve ever seen her in her whole life.
The Spark: Chapter 5
Part 5.
The Spark: Chapter 4
Part 4.
The Spark: Chapter 3
“Appointment with the Chief, Mister Jefferts?” Flora Gonzalez was sixty or so, matronly, with a number of years as a loyal personal assistant. She also brooked no nonsense and guarded the Chief’s time jealously.
The Spark: Chapter 2
Part 2.