Its been a long while since I've dreamed I was back in the military, but it happened last night. I had been recalled. We were all in uniform and it was very bright and vibrant - new recruits, active duty, and the occasional old timer like me who'd been recalled were all bustling around the dorms while drill instructors unloaded parking lots filled ( Read more... )

Dreamed last night I used to own a full-track, armored personnel carrier. It was just one of those things I thought would be fun to own. It was cold-war era with a side entrance and a narrow drivers cupola. I could remember many details about having driven it to Fort Worth when I was a government contractor with USDA. I remember it having ( Read more... )

Intelligence is a relatively small field; "incestuous" as photogoot once so aptly put it (where all applicable definitions most certainly applied), and as there are only so few places one can be stationed, those of us who served, often ran into each other time and again. It was during one of these random assignments photogoot and I shared a townhouse in Hampton ( Read more... )

Dreamed I was attending a fast-paced Noom physical assessment/boot-camp for people in high-stress jobs. There was an impressive panel of celebrity instructors on the stage, but they were the ones acting as if they'd seen a famous idol - my senior manager! He was sitting in the first row taking notes in his leather-bound planner, being attended to ( Read more... )

Dreamed I was a pilot of experimental fighter jets. I had two, at my house; one-fifth sized F-16's which could take off and land on their own. Often, I would call them, like Alexa, into my wrist-communicator: "Jets, meet me outside." Often they would try to take the quickest path - out the front door, but the frame was too narrow to accommodate ( Read more... )

Dreamed I had to work from the office - like, drive into the plant and work from my old desk. My computer was still there - an ancient Sun Ultra 5 churning away. I couldn't quite remember all the shortcuts on it I'd created over the years. And it was dark in the compute center; the lights were down low and everything was hushed. Over in the ( Read more... )

Dreamed Joe was a high-ranking officer in the Air Force, and needed to save his wife, which was going to require stealing some items from the General. We arrived on base, showed proper identification to enter, and proceeded to the hanger where the stuff we needed was being kept. In the supply office, Joe approached a diminutive man in uniform ( Read more... )

Had far too much fun playing with all the pics I took of the McConnell Douglas F4-D "Phantom" in Emporia, KS Veterans Day weekend:


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Emporia, KS, the "Birthplace of Veterans Day" also had, according to an internet search of military aircraft static displays, a single Phantom F4-D. Since creating an actually awesome Facebook frame for us USAF veterans, and subsequently, one for those in relationships with us at the behest of GF, I'd had the idea to shoot her pin-up style against ( Read more... )

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