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“Spooge” somehow became the nickname for the cans of spray adhesive we used to stick paper targets, bullâs eyes, and the like to a target silhouette downrange. It simply was the quickest and most convenient way to quickly attach paper to cardboard and get on to the business of sending maximum rounds down range on […]
âTHEREâS A FREAKINâ FENCE OUT THERE. A CHAIN-LINK FENCE!â came the holler from our man in the doorway of the building we were in. That fence was blocking our route to a field just outside, to where our exfiltration help was already inbound. I already knew what was coming next as the assault team leader […]
(Dedicated to Recon6) Riiiingggg⌠riiiingggg⌠riiiingggg⌠(this is a sound that phones made in the day, back before we could we could select Poison by Bell Biv Devoe as a ring tone) Jesus H. Christ, it’s only 0230⌠and oh-no, there can be only one good reason my home phone is ringing at this hour. […]
se¡lect /sÉËlekt/ verb 1.â¨carefully choose as being the best or most suitable: “he has been selected to take part” Every one of us inherently wants to be selected. âOhâŚPICK ME, PICK ME!â We bustled on the school playground forming up for games. Doesnât it seem like you can hardly just go participate in a thing […]
Iâm a gunslinger by background, or at least I fancy myself the sort. I still wear my pistols low these days, just not quite as low as in the day. l live, nonetheless, today as I have always livedâby the sword. And you know what living by the sword means. Thatâs right, it means being […]
Prologue:There a two men who I credit, or blame, for bringing me to the Delta Force from my state of uncertainty and lack of self-confidence: James Nelson Sudderth and Matthew Loren Rierson. Both are departed. Both deliberately approached me and asked me to come to Delta Force. First it was Matt who asked me âwhen […]
Note: This is part of a series. Read part one here. Dawn cracks in the Republic of Korea (ROK) and 10,000 roosters crow. My auditory senses are awakened. I stare at the olive drab of the tent canvas above my cot. Visual acquisition and, wait for itâŚwait for itâŚah, there it isâolfactory perforation by rotton […]
I was a grunt, a ground-pounder, a door-kicker, a knuckle-dragger, a dog face, and a devil dog. Iâve been dogged-out and dog-tired, Iâve rucked until my dogs were barkinâ while it rained cats and dogs. Iâve had a dog in the fight, lived a dogâs life, gone to the dogs, been in the doghouse, and […]
While taking part in a training course for a special mission, I understood that I would be attending SERE school at some point during the six-month course, though I didnât really know when. Our SERE training was split into an administrative phase of classroom training, followed by a no-notice internment phase in a prisoner-of-war camp⌠[…]
“The sky, even more than the sea, is terribly unforgiving for even the slightest mistake.” (Author Unknown) Let’s get one thing straight: I hate jumping. Don’t get me wrong, the whole concept and execution is sexy enough, but I was simply cursed with a wicked bout of acrophobia. Two or three days prior to an […]