Archive for October, 2013
This review was posted a ways back on kitup.military.com. I wasn’t going to post it here, but what the heck, maybe some readers are interested in boots. The Kitup editor changed it up a bit, but I like mine better so I’ve posted the original. http://kitup.military.com/2013/09/sws-athletic-breach-desert-boots.html ————————————————————————————— To write a fair and objective review of […]
Filed under: Gear reviews | 3 Comments
Tags: boots, breach, S&W, veteran writers
Learned Helplessness
This essay was published by BreachBangClear in two parts on October 20th and 21st. http://www.breachbangclear.com/site/10-blog/500-electrocuting-the-dog-learned-helplessness-in-the-military-part-1.html http://www.breachbangclear.com/site/10-blog/501-electrocuting-the-dog-learned-helplessness-in-the-military-part-2.html ———————————————————————— I sat in a classroom with about twenty other soldiers, studying a slide show of armored vehicles for an upcoming test. Identifying vehicles was a critical part of the Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) we were trying to attain, […]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Iraq | 18 Comments
Tags: military, veteran writers
Joyful hopes, painful reminders
Last week my friend Manal, a fellow aspiring author who is originally from Lebanon, started a blog. On her first blog post she told the story of taking her family to Lebanon for vacation in 2006, only to be blindsided by the outbreak of the Israel-Hezbollah war. She and her family had to be evacuated […]
Filed under: Afghanistan | 20 Comments
Tags: Afghanistan, Jared Southworth, Kyle Wilks, veteran writers
The Military Within the Military
This is the third post I’ve written in response to Lauren Kay Johnson’s Glamour Magazine essay about her struggle to adjust after Afghanistan. https://chrishernandezauthor.com/2013/10/07/veterans-defeating-ourselves-with-the-medias-help/ https://chrishernandezauthor.com/2013/10/10/update-on-lauren-kay-johnson-af-veteran/ For reasons which I think are obvious, Johnson’s essay had a far larger impact than she expected. And rightfully so; she unintentionally illustrated a stark contrast inside our military. This […]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Iraq | 23 Comments
Tags: lauren kay johnson, PTSD, veteran writers
A few days ago I published a post about Lauren Kay Johnson, an Air Force veteran of the War on Terror (https://chrishernandezauthor.com/2013/10/07/veterans-defeating-ourselves-with-the-medias-help/). The Daily Mail newspaper in the UK had written a story about her problems adjusting after her Afghanistan deployment. It also said she had a “milder form of PTSD”, and provided a list […]
Filed under: Afghanistan | 19 Comments
Tags: Afghanistan, daily mail, glamour magazine, lauren kay johnson, PTSD
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