By Rick Altman Rick Altman in Vietnam, 1966 Every February 25, I think of what might have been and am grateful. I served with the Marines in Vietnam in 1966, came home, went to school, moved on with life.  But I missed the military. Coming from a bad family

By Brad Washabaugh, Colonel, USMC (ret) Norman Schwarzkopf photo from wikipedia.org Bright Star 89 was the dress rehearsal for Desert Storm conducted in the Oman desert in the summer of 1989. I was the operations officer for 3rd Bn, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division. As a major, I was

By James Lutz image from rallypoint.com In the summer of 1956, after completing six weeks of Basic Training at Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas, I was assigned to Scott Air Force Base at Belleville, Illinois, to become a Personnel Records Specialist, Airman First Class. We lived in a two-story

Image from wikipedia.org Desert Storm saw the largest assembly of war ships since WWII. You can find a list of them here. Yet, not included on that list are two that made history on Day 3 of Desert Storm: the USS Louisville (SSN-724) and the USS Pittsburgh (SSN-720), the submarines

7,600 Vets Answered. Here are the 7 funniest stories (revised for clarity and language). Oscar the Grouch We had a guy that somehow got his watch through the “indoc” (when they take all your stuff on arrival to Parris Island). Well, the DIs found out he had it, so they put him