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This is my blog.
I write about the military, culture, and military culture, among other things.
I suppose this blog is my public notebook, where I post various things I find in public records and elsewhere (like the recesses of my mind?). Want me to write for you? Email me to book a call.
Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee cradles an infant during the noncombatant evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, days before her death in an August 2021 suicide bombing. Gee was assigned to the Combat Logistics Battalion 24, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. (Isaiah Campbell/U.S. Marine Corps)
Phone calls—and donations—poured in to the nonprofit that flew Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee’s remains to Arlington National Cemetery after a since-discredited Fox News story prompted outrage.
The New York Naval Militia's LC-350 landing craft cruises the waters of New York Harbor past the Statue of Liberty on August 15, 2018. (Don McKnight/New York Division of Military and Naval Affairs)
New York troops rushed to aid a young woman who cut her wrist.
A screenshot from an infrared video taken from a military range in 2021 that shows three unidentified objects that Pentagon investigators assess as commercial airliners.
The truth is out there. Way, way out there. But not THAT far out there…if you believe the Pentagon. The military says an infrared video of three unknown flying objects likely shows distant airliners.
Tech. Sgt. William Gonzalez, lower left, walks to get water from his truck for Elizabeth Gray Edwards, who crashed her car into a pond in North Carolina on May 4 after experiencing a medical condition that caused her to black out.
An airman’s rapid aid to an unconscious woman in a sinking car likely saved her life and has earned him praise from his command and a local congressman.
“I didn’t think, I just acted.” — Tech. Sgt. William Gonzalez
A Marine holds a urine sample during a II Marine Expeditionary Force-wide drug test at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C. (Marine Corps photo/Daniel A. Wulz)
Army CID records seem to give us answers the spokespeople wouldn’t—proving yet again the incredible value of the Freedom of Information Act and other transparency laws.
