Up out of Bunker Joke Vault 1 FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. You Continue Reading →

Have you ever felt that you have reached a personal tipping point?  Being an old Soldier and also a veteran of the federal workforce, I still have a well functioning bovine scatology (BS) meter.  For months, it’s been redlined. Not Continue Reading →

Up out of the Bunker Archives 1998-99 I went on the retired rolls October 1, 1999.  When General Reimer was Army Chief of Staff he would send out memos to his staff title Random Thoughts While Running.  Naturally those filtered Continue Reading →

Sometimes I have a  burning introspective  question to answer.  As often as it happens, the more I ponder the question the farther away I get from answering it.  Instead new questions emerge such as:  Is there an answer?  Do I really Continue Reading →

I haven’t figured it out yet, but the cranial hard drive is spinning.  It’s spinning so fast the cooling fan can’t keep pace.  The gears may lock up any minute.  It could be bad. When I was about 10 or Continue Reading →

Up out of the Bunker Archives – 1999. Also published in the Field Artillery Journal. May-June 99 The choice of non-commissioned officers is an object of the greatest importance: The order and discipline of a regiment depends so much upon Continue Reading →