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Tag Archives: Mess Hall
A Civilian KP
Never once did I make Supernumerary at Guard Mount and only rarely was I assigned to the much preferred Bunker #2. Bunkers #1 and #2 straddled the Main Gate at Tây Ninh West Base Camp. Bunker #1 was the province … Continue reading →
Posted in Capitalism, Expository Writing, Humor, Observations, Personal History, Short Stories, Veterans
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Tagged 187th AHC, 187th Assault helicopter Company, Bunker 3-Alpha, History, Humanity, Kitchen Police, KP, Mess Hall, Security Checkpoint, Tay Ninh West Base Camp, US Army, Việt Nam, Việt Nam War, Women
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An Accident – 1968
I don’t like the term “irony”, it makes me uncomfortable. Even linguistics scholars have difficulty pin-pointing definitively just what the word irony means. In spite of this puzzlement, I find it ironic that, as I’ve stated elsewhere, it was my … Continue reading →
Posted in Personal History, Short Stories, Uncategorized, Veterans
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Tagged Accident, Announcements, Censorship, Chin-Ups, D.I.'s, Daily Logs, Double Time, Drill Instructors, Drunk Driver, Duty Officer Logs, Duty Rosters, esprit de corps, Formation, Fort Campbell Kentucky, Ft. Campbell, Guidon, Head Count, Headquarters, HQ, Irony, Jogging, Mess Hall, Morning Reports, OUI, Perfectionism, Physical Training, Platoon, PT, Punctuation, Push- Ups, Reveille, Roll Call, Safety, Scuttlebutt, Sick Call, Stockade, Traffic Wands, Triple Time, U. S. Army, UCMJ, Uniform Code of Military Justice, Viet Nam, Writing
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