It's sad, the U.N. was created in the glowing embers of WW2 to prevent such a catastrophe from happening again. However, the U.N. has become a...
The story hints that the firefighters did training exercises at their own station. I can't begin to imagine that as our training exercises were...
Being uprooted from my comfortable upper midwest existence to having to move to a heavily hispanic area was a huge culture shock. Arriving in the...
Hopefully, there's anappeal process wherein this jackass judge will get his decision overturned. brndrt is right, this does set a very dangerous...
World's worst firemen? Bungling German firemen have been branded the worst in the world after their own fire station burned to the ground....
One-armed surfer is a champ A teenage surfer who refused to quit the sport after losing an arm to a shark has triumphed in the world...
I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Fall down funny stuff.
Growing up in ranch country, we always kept a rifle on us, always. You never knew what you would run into, but shortly after we went on a mountain...
Do y'all remember the story about those teen twins from 6-7 years ago? They were attractive, musically talented, and could've been big time,...
When I became one of three assistant chiefs, I was in charge of filing and filling out reports. We rolled on one fire one day. A guy had converted...
Hear hear. In the 1970's, when I was a child firefighter, I had problems with school staff and leaving to fight fires. After one lengthy overnight...
1) I never learned to drink coffee. Although I like the smell of regular coffee (not that vanilla hazlenut crap they try to pretend is coffee),...
Your experience was better than mine. I grew up around damaged people. Twenty years after high school I was able to track down people I knew....
I forgot to mention, Galveston also has Seawolf park. There's a WW2 sub,destroyer escort, and PT boat, but also-the park took a pounding in...
Galveston has an outstanding Aviation museum Lone Star Flight Museum www.lsfm.org 2002 Terminal Dr Galveston, TX 77554 (409) 740-7722...
If the recent pirate problem and recent wars have taught us anything, it's that we should still have some vessels now considered obsolete. The US...
When you are in a position of command you have to edit yourself all day long, every day. In my last posting, I was Provost Marshal at the base....
I found Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, also recently. It's based on the hit book. The only real problem I have with the movie is that he loves his...
I found a movie called Air Force recently. The movie depicts a B-17 crew in the group that flew into Pearl Harbor during the attack. The next...
I also have a former brother in law with a unique outlook on life. He will go to a junkyard and pull out a wrecked 57 Chevy, buying it for a few...
