The army story has been a hard one to get started because it is a daunting task to take almost 3 years of daily weirdness, which actually requires a bit of a preface, to get underway. The preface might seem like it has nothing to do with anything until later in the...
I met Mike Anderson at AIT. His friends called him “Andy” and he was then, and he remains fifty years later one of the most unique and strangely wonderful human beings I’ve ever met. I’m not sure if it was because of his love for hallucinogens and the fact that he had...
In the army the unit known as The Rangers are revered as the best that there is. I thought that it was the green berets, but no, it’s the Army Rangers. Take that little tid-bit and marry it to the fact that in the army the letters “FTA” are understood by all to mean...
One of my one-man army-criminal-“empire” activities included the sale of Mandrax, which were the European equivalent of Quaaludes. Both pills were so addictive with so little medicinal value that they have both been outlawed. For the record they are in the category of...
I’m going to preface this short story with a word about a word. If you are offended by the N-bomb then you’ll want to either stop reading or know that it’s coming. I don’t use that word, but I won’t ever fail to quote someone accurately, especially because someone...
