tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130859842025-08-04T14:28:01.396-05:00Life and observations from the pointy end of the spear.Chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15321078272480623428noreply@blogger.comBlogger1924125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13085984.post-60207467420727192392019-03-31T10:30:00.001-05:002019-03-31T10:30:27.699-05:00

Very rarely in life, you meet special people.  These people are the ones that not only befriend you, but *get* you.  They aren't simply friends, they are the kind of people whose opinions you treasure, whose company you crave, and who, for me, are in a select group of friends who I will drop everything if they needed something. I can probably count them out on my remaining fingers.

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Till midnight PST, Shop at amazon smile and 10% of your purchase goes to Hero Labradors! HTTP://smile.amazon.com/ch/81-4705687

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Yesterday (1 March) I promised to write a post based on what I saw at the top of my twitter feed when I first signed on. Hey, why not?  Here goes: Wow that's messy. And maybe another reason Biden didn't run. https://t.co/P83IYdCmrx — Seth (@dcseth) March 2, 2017 Beau Biden's Widow in Love Affair with His *Still* Married Brother | RedState https://t.co/qodYpj4C6k — Mickey White (@

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Hero Labradors www.herolabradors.com On Twitter:  @HeroLabradors On Facebook (I think that is the right link)(CM: it is) Via Email I am a wounded warrior. A service dog helped me immensely in my recovery, and has continued to help me live a normal life. One of the things instilled in me during my years of service was a dedication to a lifetime of service to our nation. To that end

Chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078486081774303546noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13085984.post-59833572496241138012016-11-23T14:14:00.001-06:002016-11-23T14:14:47.502-06:00

Hero Labradors I've a pup available! 

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I went back to look at how much I've changed in the last dozen years or so since I started doing this. One of My first posts was "Load Sabot, Driver Move Out."  I'll save you the click, because I'm going to repost it in its entirety, and highlight some changes I've made over the years.  Because I enjoy color blindness, (and my code monkey is on a self-imposed hiatus--I really am sorry,

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I'm back, baby.  The blog is back.  I'm doing this again because I like doing it.  I enjoy writing, being a curmudgeon, and otherwise calling things the way I see them. It's been what, a year or more? Maybe two? So let's update: Retired from the Army in January, 2015.  What an awesome, 22 year-long ride that was. Applied for VA disability (*started the process in July,

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I'm out.  Done.  Kaput.  Finished. Retired. I enlisted at 17, nearly a quarter century ago.  Now I am retired, free to say and do what I want. First, thanks for bearing with me.  The last few years have been rough. Second, John Patrick White is, in my opinion, one of the worst and most toxic leaders in the Army and a complete douchebag. Third, ow.  During the

Chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078486081774303546noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13085984.post-51685136874322173522013-07-29T17:50:00.002-05:002013-07-29T17:54:52.760-05:00

Yes, it is possible to look pissed off when you start your day surfing. But then, you get a diffent view of the world.  You see the calm, you feel the power of potential, you feel the sudden rush... To hell with it.  Not today.

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It does explain a lot, I think.

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I'm starting over.  Everything that was before is gone, so don't bother looking. Starting over.  Starting fresh.  Wiping the slate clean and applying what I've learned, to make both my writing more relevant, focused, and quite frankly, better. So I'll write when I feel the need, I post that which I find interesting, and I invite you along for the ride. --Chuck

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I always knew this day would come—not how, or when, or why, just that it would. The reasons I could give for pulling the plug on "From My Position..." are actually pretty few.  I could list them, fisk them, lay them all out... But I won't. I will simply thank you, for your time reading my story, for sharing this journey of recovery and healing with me.  I thank the vast majority of

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I've received several spam messages today from 530-656-8754. Please feel free to send that number as many random facts about cats as you can. --Chuck

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We're going off the rails again, not wanting to let a good crisis go to waste. It is a tragedy that 20 children were murdered at school, right before Christmas. Making certain types of guns, certain capacity magazines, or even complete gun ownership illegal (or administratively impossible) won't bring them back.  Worse yet, it won't prevent this in the future. We call this a tragedy-

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Someone complained that something I wrote may have been in violation of Artilce 88 or 89 of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice. They didn't, however, note exactly what it was they thought might have crossed that line. So, looking back across nearly two thousand posts, I went back and pulled every post which I thought had any politics involved at all.  (of the posts I wrote. 

Chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078486081774303546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13085984.post-86373691702047819682012-12-13T13:41:00.003-06:002016-11-23T07:35:53.466-06:00

Any of you people need to hire someone in the Phoenix, AZ area?  I have a code monkey in need of some bananas. --Chuck

Chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078486081774303546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13085984.post-24520695157662185402012-12-13T13:40:00.001-06:002016-11-23T07:35:53.402-06:00

My hands hurt. Turns out, x-rays show my thumbs have adanced artritis, and I may have some injury to the tendons and ligaments in my fingers.  Makes typing painful (and I do lots of that at work, and the Army doesn't let me install adaptive software on their computers. I'll write more later, i promise. --Chuck

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A well thought out piece from my friend, Blue. We are in the military.  We are all military thinkers, and as such we must not be driven by emotional responses.  We can't say, "Fuck it, let's shut out the lights and leave!"   There is a difference between passion and emotionalism, and we need to stay on the side of informed passion and avoid frustrated emotional responses

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Marines help save 14 New Yorkers trapped by Hurricane Sandy BROOKLYN, Ny - Winds, close to 80 mph, whipped the 14-foot floodwaters through the streets of New York Monday night as Hurricane Sandy bore down on the city. During the height of the storm, a detective from the New York Police Department approached the duty noncommissioned officer of 6th Communications Battalion, Force Headquarter Group

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VETERANSDAYDISCOUNTS2012.pdf

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In the Army, in command posts, we keep books of battle drills.  These drills cover actions we, as a battle staff, and the Tactical Operations Center staff, take upon the occurance of one of thse incidents.  It helps drive routine actions in an emergency environment.  Frequnetly it involves actions to take, in order, and persons to notify, and flows from initial notification to

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The Honorable Joe BidenDemocratic National ConventionWednesday, August 27, 2008Remarks as Prepared for Delivery My parents taught us to live our faith, and treasure our family. We learned the dignity of work, and we were told that anyone can make it if they try. That was America's promise. For those of us who grew up in middle-class neighborhoods like Scranton and Wilmington, that was the

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Via Susan Katz Keating. Some of you may remember CSM Basil Plumley as the larger than life soldier who helped lead men to battle in the movie We Were Soldiers. He is a real person, and a genuine hero. Please take a moment to say a prayer for CSM Plumley. And also send a card thanking him, one last time, for his service, and wishing him well. Let's give him a good sendoff.Write to him

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"I'm pleased to announce that USAA has signed an affinity relationship with Soldiers' Angels to introduce a customized credit card for approximately 86,000 veterans, wounded and deployed service members, and their families.  USAA Bank now offers the Soldiers’ Angels USAA Rewards™ World MasterCard® credit card to help support the group’s programs and activities. USAA Bank will make a

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