Archive for the ‘Afghanistan’ Category
I Heart Fake Combat Vets
This was published yesterday on Breach Bang Clear. If you love fake combat vets as much as I do, please click the link below and check it out. Thanks, Chris I Heart Fake Combat Vets Chris Hernandez is a 20 year police officer, former Marine and currently serving National Guard soldier with over 25 years […]
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Tags: art leal, justin gourley, military fakers, PTSD, veteran writers
About 2/3 of the way through my Afghanistan deployment, a new intelligence lieutenant arrived at my firebase. By this time my team and I had been in country for a while, had been in several engagements, and had a reputation for being outside the wire all the time. I was an E-7 with twenty years […]
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Tags: Afghanistan, Chris Hernandez, combat, veteran writers
Signs, Of Veteran Entitlement
This was published Friday on Breach Bang Clear. I’m pretty sure I’m going to get shanked for it. ———————————— Signs, Of Veteran Entitlement I won’t go into too much detail, since I’m sure most of you have heard of this already. But apparently some veterans are so traumatized by their wartime service they’re asking people […]
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Tags: Chris Hernandez, PTSD, veteran writers
Women in the Infantry? Yes.
This was published yesterday on Breach Bang Clear. Not surprisingly, many readers launched into vitriolic diatribes against the idea, without bothering to read the article. On the other hand, quite a few infantrymen agreed with me. I’ll take that as a win. 🙂 ******************* Over the last several years we’ve had much debate on the […]
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Tags: afghanistan war, veteran writers, women in combat, women in infantry
My Memorial Day
This man was killed in the Shpee Valley, Kapisa Province, Afghanistan, on August 7th 2009. I was on the mission where he was killed. I didn’t know him. I saw him during a rehearsal before an attack. The next time I saw him, the following morning, he was dead. Two other soldiers and I were […]
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Tags: memorial day, veteran writers, war on terror
