Limb Pillows

Description: Tattoos are a relatively cheap alternative to accomplishments and personality.... thus becoming a magnet for E1-E4s!

Description: Meals Ready to Eat have been an important part of the U.S. Army's meal plan since the 1980s.... although some of the recipes go back further.

Description: You know the Sergeant-Major is being rather insincere when you hear this phrase.

Description: Fort Leavenworth has all kinds of history plaques and markers. Every Army officer of any consequence has been here at one time or another, including one pretty intense tank major...

Description: This certainly shows where the priorities lay with the post when we had the Big Flood.

Description: Thank God for the Post Exchange! Where else could you get the little luxuries of life?

Description: Eating in a DFAC could be an adventure, but "adventure eating" isn't one of my favorite things.

Description: While stationed in the Sinai as a peacekeeper I saw all kinds of moneymaking schemes: in Sharm el-Sheikh there was a MAS Bowling Center, in al-Arish there was a decent beach on the Mediterranean," and in Ismailia they have the Izakaya Restaurant where they serve a mean Double Chicken Hamburger. I'm surprised that no one started doing tours of the desert...

Description: During Operation Iraqi Freedom the Multi-National Corps Iraq (MNCI) formed an Information Operations Task Force to combat enemy disinformation and misinformation and to reach target audiences with positive information about the Coalition. IOn effect, we wanted the insurgents to dance to OUR tune instead of the other way around. What better nickname could we have than Task Force Scopitone, named after the crazy multilingual music videos of the 1960s! The "badge" incorporated twin palm trees as a frame, a sword with a lightning bolt signified information as a weapon and the snake being hit with it represented the insurgency.

Description: On occasion, we peacekeepers of the MFO would have some interaction with the locals.