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u/All_Secure · 1 pointr/MilitaryStories

Considered it, yes.

I actually worked toward a degree in Journalism while I was still active duty. Got out and had to switch majors because the local college near my home didn't have a Journalism program.

Wrote some fiction. Mostly mystery and crime. Mickey Spillane private detective type stuff. Got a nice stack of rejection letters from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.

Self published a short story collection and one novel on Amazon. It's still there. I think it's sold somewhere around 30 copies (so I doubt I'll ever get rich off the royalties) not counting the one sitting on my bookshelf.

You can have a look-see if you want, but be warned that it's a work of fiction and has nothing to do with the military. While it has my writing style, it's a PI novel, so dont expect it to be like my reddit posts.

http://www.amazon.com/Creep-Charles-Loar-ebook/dp/B00IK5B42U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1453576369&sr=8-1&keywords=charles+loar

I'll write another one someday. Not an if, but a when. Simply havent had the time to create a decent plot. Anyway, that's a whole nother conversation.

Thanks for the compliment

u/just_foo · 4 pointsr/MilitaryStories

You consistently capture the essence of something within our shared experience and express it beautifully. According to RES, I upvote you more often than anyone else.

Please tell me you are compiling these stories into a book. During OCS, I remember being assigned Platoon Leader, by James McDonough. It was a good book that distilled many good lessons for small-unit command and gave a good feel for what military experience entails. It worked reasonably well. Your stuff is better. Aspiring junior officers should be reading your material and incorporating it into their own sense of leadership.

If you aren't already thinking about this please do so. If you do - I'm happy to volunteer to help you with editing/typesetting, etc because I think the things you have to say are worth being heard by a wider audience.

EDIT: I think the General is mean-mugging your cowlick. I can just hear the inner monologue: "God dammit! It starts small with a wild hair or two, but next thing you know there'll be hippies with long hair all over the place!"

u/evoblade · 2 pointsr/MilitaryStories

I'm not certain about the time slowdown. In fact it probably didn't seem to, because I remember being amazed at how incredibly fast I moved my arms. They were a little sore afterwards.

btw, if you are interested, here is the link for Armor.

u/Rogue__Jedi · 58 pointsr/MilitaryStories

We've used them for that before actually. They smell sooo bad.

I highly recommend them for pranks. Does your buddy look a little too peaceful while napping? Just shove one of these near(or in if you're a bastard) his nose. He'll be quite awake.

u/Yeehaw_McKickass · 16 pointsr/MilitaryStories

The main component of C4 and most other military explosives is in fact hexamine fuel tablets.

u/nightkil13r · 3 pointsr/MilitaryStories

I never took the time to learn what the acronym fully meant, but makes sense. I completely forgot about the chem light batteries one. but that was actually a thing for us so didnt really work out as well.

If youre wondering about them here is something similar, we used them all the time around the antenna farm(atleast 10-20 a night) and if our Satellite gear was on the ground and not raised up we would use 6 per dish. All just as an extra warning label to Not walk through that area, yet people still did.

u/TheTacHam · 4 pointsr/MilitaryStories

> Now I need to find a way to send that info back 50 years. There are some credulous folks who blindly trust technology who need to hear it.

There are still plenty of people today that need to hear this. Especially when it comes to the Marine Corps V-22. You really want to turn your stomach, read The Dream Machine they claim it is non-fiction, but it is a hell of a story.

For some Positive perspective, the UH – 60 was designed with survival in mind. If my memory serves correct it was one of the first helicopters it was specifically designed combat survival in mind. The aviation community learned a lot from Vietnam and from the UH-1. It is unfortunate that your era of veterans had to go through such trials.

Air mobility was not infancy concepts that for the most part seem to work. If you have not already you would probably be interested in the book Chickenhawk. It is a Vietnam era story about an aviator. Again, if my memory serves correctly that this is the same book there is a story where a pilot get shot down three different times in the same day in the same battle and keeps grabbing a new aircraft until the third time the crew chiefs refuse to go with him.