fort hood

Three Strikes Yer Out

November 10, 2011

I may have told this one before, but I can’t find it and I’m tired of looking and it’s time for a new post, so here goes. When I was in the 6th Air Cav at Fort Hood lots of bizarre things happened. It is especially amazing because I was only with that unit for [...]

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Starting a Rock and Roll Band – The Cellar Dwellars

August 2, 2010

I starting playing bass guitar in 1987 while I was stationed at Fort Hood, Texas.  That gives me over twenty years of playing time, but most of that was wasted as I did not practice much, and the only lessons I’ve ever had were from a guitar teacher who felt that bass was a waste [...]

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Closing Moments, Fort Hood

December 31, 2009

You never know how things are going to turn out, and even sometimes at the start you don’t even know it is “the start” of anything significant. I was talking to one of the lieutenants in our company and she was having some issues with her house; sort of home improvement sort of things. She [...]

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Partying with the men

October 14, 2009

I was a technical supply sergeant in Texas. Well. that was one of my assignments there at Fort Hood, and true to form, there were a lot of black people in supply. You know, it’s an army stereotype, but sometimes there are reasons for stereotypes, like, they are true. So there I was, one of [...]

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Me and Kirk Douglas, sort of

April 9, 2009

I haven’t really written about family interactions much. They are very personal things, but I am being honest with everything I write here, so I want to touch on one event that has really impacted me. The reason I wanted to write about this was because I was reading an interview with Kirk Douglas, and [...]

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