A Marine Sergeant wrote this in response to an Army guy who posted a comment on the Marine Corps site that he was sick and tired of “Marine arrogance”. The Sergeant writes: “I think that’s what makes Marines special, if only in our own minds, is that elusive Quality of Esprit D’Corps. It’s the fact…

When I first met my friend Kay in 1995, she had jus’ started down the long road of recovery from a having a brain tumor surgically removed. I was working as a driver for CitiLift and she was a reservationist for Reno Air. By the time I’d pick her up from her work place to…

We had jus’ moved the KHIT studios from Neil Road to South Virginia. At the time I was working as the overnight jock. As normal, I came in about half-an-hour early jus’ so I could get a pot of coffee on and so the person I was taking over for would not have to worry…

When I left my barracks room, my bed was perfectly made. There were no bumps or wrinkles in it. The same couldn’t be said by the time I returned from class. There was a fairly large lump in the center of the mattress. At first I thought someone had jus’ stuffed something under the top…

One of the smaller military bases in the U.S. is located in the Nevada desert, north of Las Vegas. It also plays one of the biggest roles in the nation’s war on terror. The airfield that now bears General Wilbur L. “Bill” Creech’s name was originally built by the Army in the early 1940s to…

The four of us were down in what we commonly referred to as the pasture. There was John Paul Arnold, Chucky Yates, Adam and myself. We were doing what young kids do – especially boys – roughing around, chasing each other, etc. How we all ended up together on that Saturday morning is lost to…

It was a temporary assignment to learn how to deal with life-threatening burns in a clinical setting. I was familiar with the place as I had been assigned to Brooks Air Force Base for technical school a couple of years earlier, which borders the fort. The school was one of the most unpleasant courses I…

The entire week had been one snow day after another. Despite this, I decided to enjoy my time off by taking a day-trip to take photographs and see what else I could learn about Nevada. The roads were icy and therefore slick – making driving fast a bad idea. So I took my time, stopping…

We should have never been inside the old, abandon house, but then again the back door should have been locked. It was reportedly haunted, but I wouldn’t stick around long enough to find out. The DeMartin’s house sat vacant for years facing the beach that also carries the same name. And while I won’t tattle…

The swirling, blowing snow made for a confusing pattern as the Bluebird headed west out of Nebraska and back to the Air Base. The sun had already set and the darkness seemed to add to that confusion. Everyone aboard the bus knew the trip home would be long and boring. Many had drifted off to…