Bacil Donovan Warren, Author and Veteran—Author of With It or in It: Desert Shield and Desert Storm from the Loader's Hatch
In the preparation for writing my book, as well as revisiting reference materials while preparing these 30th anniversary posts, one thing was made stunningly clear:…
After awakening fifteen minutes prior (damn you, Army!) to stand-to, working with SGT Planter to pull the camo netting off the tank and get it…
Fifteen minutes prior to fifteen minutes prior. That’s the theme of 23 FEB 1991. If you’re a veteran, military brat or spouse, or have been…
Over the days from about the 16th to the 22nd, we continued with our mission to man our screen line, and also had several revisions…
I promised a few posts ago that I would discuss music, as it was one of the few remaining sanctuaries of normality and sanity in…
As with the previous couple of entries, I’m going to post another in this diary-style format, and at the end I will put up another…
Continuing with the previous style, we find that even when having fun, time sometimes seems to absolutely crawl. Names in the entry will be flagged…
Originally, this was going to be titled “Westbound And Bored,” as in, we moved west and spent a lot of time doing things that even…
When we arrived in theater in October of 1990, we’d been primarily preparing to defend, and possibly counter-attack, against Iraqi forces continuing south from Kuwait.…
Day after day, day after day,We stuck nor breath nor motionAs idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of…
