Recent content by Day-Tripper

Has the last 3 years of war in Ukraine marked the end of ther era of the tank? When cheap drones can destroy vastly more expensive armored vehicles it may be the end of the tank as a dominant battlefield weapon. The is the first strictly conventional war, fought on traditional "tank-country"...

That Freddie Freeman walk-off home run in the 10th inning last night was a classic. Fun fact: Dodger Stadium is the 3rd oldest ball park in the MLB, after Fenway Park & Wrigley Field. I never thought of it as being that old, but I guess it is.

SMP is a great program to get a college degree & make decent money while doing so. But after college you'll have to be an Army Guard officer for a number of years & have little chance for active duty, if that's your aim. Benefits differ, state to state. Army National Guard is hurting for...

I told him which one to choose. Easy peasy. Kids would have much better lives if they let their older, wiser parents make decisions for them. At least until age 30. Still paying paying for Netflix & cell phones for 3 of them though, so I might be wrong.

While drinking four liters of vodka a day!

BU got a better hockey team.

I thought SMP was only for Army National Guard & ROTC. Great program, but I'm not certain this is for AFROTC.

An 18 year old high school senior who seeks to become a commissioned officer doesn't want to hear it might take until he or she is 20-21 years to begin that path. That seems like a million years. But it comes fast enough.

Midshipman at Parris Island? A visitor of some kind? Or dependent? Obviosuly not stationed there. "The Drill Instructors conducted a quick investigation and got to the bottom of it." I'll bet they did!

JFK wasn't diagnosed with Addison's until after WW2 but he was a physical mess at the time of his joining the Navy in 1942. Scarlet fever survivor, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcers, urinary tract infections, prostatitis, severe back & spinal problems (worsened greatly by playing football at...

Much has been written about efforts of the US Armed Forces to recurit sufficient numbers in recent years. I read somewhere today that, if the John F Kennedy or Audie Murphy, in their physical conditions of 1942, tried to enlist today they would have be rejected for health reasons. From my...

Kinda reminds me of Donald Sutherland n the Dirty Dozen, pretending to be a general (he was a disheveled private) while inspecting troops. "Very pretty, Colonel. But can they fight?"

One of my recruiters in 1981 was at Khe Sahn at the age of 19. He said it was only time in Vietnam he was regularly cold. He didn't mind the constant shelling but had nightmares for years about the rats that infested the mountaintop base. He had nothing but praise for the Air Force B-52s...

Don't forget Cher's classic Navy tribute "If I Could Turn Back Time".

I knew MacArthur was powerful, but "stopping" the war (WW2) to celebrate a football victory? https://taskandpurpose.com/history/army-navy-game-1944-douglas-macarthur/ "At the height of World War II, though, both West Point and Annapolis were having some of their best years ever, and the...