August finally rolled around, bringing with it an end to two months of vacation.  I must now venture out into the real world and make my living as an officer in the US Air Force.Well, maybe not just yet.First, I had to attend four months of technical training -- Basic Communications Officer ...  read more

Note: As a wedding gift to my wife, I wrote this story and the story of how we met.  Months earlier, I had surreptitiously asked her to write the same two stories from her perspective.  The wedding gift was a compilation of the four stories.  Sorry, buy you'll only be getting my ve...  read more

That's what I had always heard. At the end of my senior year of college I entered the Air Force as a 2nd Lieutenant with visions of being stationed in Germany. I was no fool, though, I would have taken any exotic location -- which meant anything outside the continental United States.Oh, there wer...  read more