Infantry officers, as a rule, are Manly Men.

Each assignment will provide a new immediate and senior rater.

These men would not be in their positions...

 (with some exceptions found in the Biden era which are being removed by the Secdef...)

... if they were poor leaders or, worse, Unmanly Men.

The lethality required in infantry and other FORSCOM units prohibits otherwise.

"What is 'MOSS MOUSE' ?..."

Six weeks at Fort Sam Houston cannot impart the military knowledge and leadership developed over years of ROTC training.

That's OK; their dental and surgical skills were second to none.

However, clinical skills alone do not a leader make...

My concerns about the DENTAC commander at Fort Rucker, my initial assignment as an active duty captain, were found to be unwarranted.

Colonel Belman Maddox was the epitome of a leader.

As previously stated, God enabled my first three years in the United States Army to be incredibly rewarding.

Surrounded by board certified specialists...

The Walter Reed and DC experience...

Thanks, Colonel Maddox, for ensuring those three visits to DC occurred during the Cherry Blossom Festival.

REFORGER 82...

The solemn duty as Forensic Officer will never be forgotten;  I continue to pray for those eight aviators and their families.

Best of all, the birth in 1983 of my firstborn son, Daniel Kristopher Daw.

That utopia was shattered in 1983 with the Russians murdering hundreds of Korean civilians on KAL flight 007. 

Admittedly, that Anchorage to Seoul flight, which I flew after my first return trip to Chattanooga in 1985, produced Spidey Sense stirring.

Walking through the Anchorage airport, I was averting my thoughts of a Soviet interceptor blowing my flight out of the sky.

 Their doomed Boeing 747 was enveloped in total darkness. The gentle vibrations that emanated from their transoceanic aircraft provided a soothing environment for a good nap.

  Those poor souls, most of whom were soundly sleeping in the first hours of that September morning, would all be called before God as their aircraft broke apart six miles above the Earth.

I can only imagine the children's terror, struggling to breathe as they were hurtling to their death.

Russian bastards...

The explosions of air-to-air missiles awakened the terrified passengers in absolute darkness.

I shudder each time I have played the entire series of events in my mind.

Their plummeting from 35,000 feet into the Sea of Japan took several minutes...

Several minutes. 

This flight path is very close to Sakhalin and Russian airspace.  

Had the pilot checked his azimuth upon takeoff, he would have noted he was way off course.

His switching to autopilot from his magnetic azimuth was too late; 246 passengers and 23 crew members were doomed.

They met a horrible death.

Two years hence, my flight was in broad daylight with GPS guidance.  My thoughts returned to my fond memories of my studly little boy back in Chattanooga.

While awaiting my flight at the Anchorage airport, I recalled the 1964 earthquake, producing a tidal wave that stretched across the Pacific Ocean.

While the Daw family was on Oahu.  Hmmm.

Further, I thought of one of the few JAG officers I encountered in the Army who earned my respect.  He was stationed with me at Fort Rucker.

Cannot remember his name after these decades, but I distinctly remember his big smile and hideous black rimmed glasses.

Standard Army-issued spectacles...

It was a beautiful sunny day in LA (Lower Alabama); my friend and his wife, who lived only a couple of blocks away, dropped by for a swim in our pool, noting we were outside watching Kris on his flotation device.

After executing a few dives off the diving board, he sauntered over to me after Patty provided refreshments.

While sipping on a pina colada, he shared with me his next assignment, as summer and his tour of duty were waning in Alabama.  This would be an accompanied PCS (permanent change of station) tour, as he had sufficient rank for his family to accompany him for the three years.

"Keith, I'm gonna remember this beautiful sun-drenched day."

He then informed me his next assignment would be as an Arctic Warrior at Fort Wainwright, AK.

His swims will be in an indoor pool, I would wager.

Under the 11th 

Airborne Division command...

 But I digress; the flight was uneventful.

I had a watchful eye scanning that beautiful blue sky as we were skimming just above the clouds. 

Not a Soviet interceptor to be seen...

5 September 1983

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dppdtCLvkts

Human error initiated the cascade of events that preceded this typical Russian dogma...

...  that excuses civilian deaths under any circumstances.

President Reagan immediately provided civilian access to the GPS (Global Positioning System), preventing future navigational errors.

Recognizing the immediate Chinese and North Korean threat, President Reagan evened the potential battlefield on the DMZ (five million NOKO soldiers vs ten thousand 2ID Warriors) with the deployment of battalions of Special Forces personnel...

 ... and dozens of tactical nuclear weapons on the 38th parallel.

By the way, Fourth Estate and all Demoncrat scum, it was the GOP...

Hold on to your pearls, liberals.

... and President Richard Nixon who initiated this paradigm-changing improvement to global navigation.

Is this what 'historians' note as most memorable about his administration?

Nope, the Fourth Estate and the racist Dems hounded to death the first President for whom I was honored to vote in 1972.

'Watergate' was as insignificant as a flea on Maizie Karuno.

Simply a recon for what the filthy America-hating Democrats (before their fall into The Abyss and their absolute devolution into Demoncrats...) were planning.

An S-2 operation, gathering intelligence on the Enemy, that was fully justified...

Remember LBJ and what the Democrats did to Barry Goldwater.

To reiterate, 'Watergate' was simply a recon op for what the filthy America-hating Democrats (before their fall into The Abyss and their absolute devolution into Demoncrats...) were planning.

From a battalion standpoint, it was an S-2 operation, gathering intelligence on the Enemy, and fully justified.

I say again,

Remember LBJ and what the Democrats did to Barry Goldwater.

I was an admirer of this Manly Man.

The Democratic Party, far removed from my grandfather's Democratic Party, continued its unabated assault on the Republican Party.

Didn't take much for the slings and arrows to erupt after a third rate burglary.

That evil partnership with the Fourth Estate continues today...

After my DC and Walter Reed experiences, those incessant Watergate TV proceedings have been displaced...

... by the memories acquired in the eighties.

It was a nice hotel where my colleagues and I had delicious lunches on occasion.

The Fourth Estate really had a hand in the assault on this fine Air Force pilot....

Even at ten, I recognized Asshole Liars.

Army brats know who the Enemy is.

Even the enemy within...

Again, I was a ten year old and a big fan of this Air Force reserve Major General who flew the Hump in WWII.

 The Smithsonian magazine:

  'Flying the Hump refers to the perilous airlift operation during World War II where Allied pilots transported supplies over the Himalayan Mountains from India to China to support the Chinese war effort against Japan.

 This route was known for its extreme weather, high altitudes, and lack of emergency landing sites, making it one of the most dangerous air transport missions in history.' 

 This travesty of a political ad did emphasize the point that the Democratic Party was, indeed, weak and resulted in the deaths of more than fifty thousand soldiers in Vietnam.

Votes were held on virtually every bomb that finally started falling on Hanoi.

These evil traitors, having overseen the carnage for years in Vietnam, never had concern for the cannon fodder that THEIR children didn't provide...

But, as the 1972 election was looming and Hubert Humphrey was all these scumbags had to offer,  LBJ decided to help his party again.

Remember the 1964 Rights Act and his assertion about "...them niggers...", with the Fourth Estate ensuring the credit for this legislation, initiated and supported by the GOP, would go to the Dems.

In May of 1972 the Dems wanted, yet again, for the military to bail them out.

"Let's look like we are doing something..." an LBJ staffer uttered one day.

And Operation Pocket Money was born.

This interdiction of NVA and Viet Cong supply lines was...

... too little, too late.

The Democrats were responsible for a humiliating defeat with the fall of Saigon in 1975.  This was an open declaration that Democrats in the United States could not protect our blood and treasure.

Four decades later, the Demoncrat Prince of Persia acolytes planned further civilian-controlled slaughter of our troops...

... setting the stage for 26 August 2021 and Abbey Gate.

All responsible, including Milley, should be executed.

 When I performed my duties as a dental officer, I expected the soldier I was treating to be in uniform.

While I was in the middle of a busy day during my DOD week at DC #1 in Yongsan, I surveyed the waiting area and noted a waiting patient was in civilian attire.

My two chairs were currently occupied with two surgical patients, one with his post-op care being reviewed by my assistant.  I was about to deliver a fractured lower molar, requiring an inferior alveolar nerve block, on the second patient.

Mandibular blocks require more time for profound anesthesia to be accomplished, as opposed to maxillary infiltration.

Consequently, maxillary extractions were always preferred when time was of the essence.

All extractions were accomplished with local anesthesia only; no sedation or even nitrous oxide was used.

These were soldiers, not children.

Family members were, however, accorded certain adjunctive measures for their oral surgical procedures.

While awaiting the mandibular block to take effect, my assistant seated the 'civilian' in my open chair.

As I perused his 603-A dental record, I saw he was an E-5, a buck sergeant.

His current assignment allowed him to perform his duties out of uniform, as he was CID.

Those undercover duties included busting young GI's for pot or, as in Korea, black market activity.

My experience found that the CID soldiers with whom I interacted also possessed an unjustified haughtiness.

'Look at me!  I don't have to wear a uniform...'

Nevertheless, I greeted him as I would any other soldier, noting his apprehension about his impending emergency dental evaluation.

"Sergeant Jones, what is the issue today?",  I queried.

"My wisdom tooth...", he responded, nervously looking around the open bay we were in.

Confirming his diagnosis, it was a soft tissue impaction, #17.

After a tray was brought for the administering of Lidocaine, this wuss immediately sat upright in my chair...

"You're not going to do it here, are you?"

"I want to see an oral surgeon and be put to sleep..."

Recognizing that this young sergeant has probably had significant pain for some time, I attempted to soothe his fears.

I also pointed out an Army-wide edict, issued only months before, mandating general dental officers would perform the oral surgical procedures necessary for DRP  deployment status.

In the open bay.

The specialists did, in fact, have their own treatment rooms.  I recall LTC Blainey observing my apicoectomy of #4 via fenestration of the buccal alveolus, requiring a full thickness mucogingival flap.

My West Point immediate rater had soothing music and some quite impressive photos from his previous Ranger operations.

LTC Blainey had a playlist that actually made me enjoy the suturing required... 

It is better for that doctor - patient relationship when treatment is accorded in a more private setting, such as treatment rooms.

That is why my Northpoint Boulevard office had distinct patient treatment rooms for their privacy and comfort.

If they requested the door be closed, I would accommodate their wish.

If a female patient made the request, I always ensured staff was with us...

Back to the CID weenie...

I explained to the sergeant I did not have time to discuss the matter any further.

Either allow me to provide his anesthesia and accomplish his extraction, or leave.

I was trying to stay on schedule...

His face turned red as he slithered out of my chair, never to be seen again.

Minutes after the CID wimp stormed out of the bay area, I was summoned to Colonel Cannot Remember His Name dweeb's office.

My response to this tiny man, who never saw a patient himself,  and wanted me to delay treatment for soldiers in pain, was a reiteration of current DENTAC doctrine.

Reiterating to my clinic chief, COL 'Hideous Army-issued Glasses', my discussion with SGT Jones...

 I pointed out to the E-5 that my instructions from 18th MEDCOM and the Army were quite clear.

I was to perform extractions in the bay area.

Further, I was not trained as an infantry officer in order to coddle and plead with enlisted soldiers.

I then declared to this REMF my bowels were about to erupt.

Must have been the kimchi for lunch...

The senior dental officer in the Tenth Medical Attachment (DS) was, indeed, a REMF, as he sat behind a desk all day long.

He was quite personable and pretty much stayed out of my sphere, leaving my management to LTC Blainey.

Hence my duties as Radiation Protection Officer, Motor Officer and Range Officer...

Further, LTC Blainey wanted me to conduct the interviews for Executive Secretary, finding Miss Pae Hye Chong being selected.

She fondly referred to LTC Blainey as 'Colonel Five Fifty-five'...

The LTC often assumed that clock position when, while deep in thought, he would cock his head just so...

At any rate, Colonel E., a fellow alumnus of mine from UT dental school, was making sure I was in my BOQ.

Again, a fellow alumnus...

Asshole.

 Another shout-out to LTC Blainey and Pae Hye Chong...

Kevin O'Connor, an embarrassment to the United States Army... 

This midget is a representation of most military 'doctors'.

While he is, technically, a 'physician'...

... he is an osteopath.

Despite allegations to the contrary, they are not equivalent to MDs.

Physicians with medical degrees use evidence-based treatments for illnesses and injuries.

As the medical students would poke the dental students at UTCHS:

"We are 'RD's - the Real Doctors..."

As opposed to an osteopath, those with an MD degree clearly are.

Did this little man meet the height requirements for military service?  

As stated before, the Army has struggled for years to find qualified physicians in order to keep our soldiers deployable.

Their desperation found the need for equating osteopaths and medical doctors.

Hence, this POS O'Connor wuss...

Osteopaths cast aspersions on 'RD's by referring to conventional medicine as 

https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/who-is-dr-kevin-oconnor-and-why-is-he-under-fire-for-bidens-cancerdiagnosis-article-151669763

The Little Lesbian Liar, aka 'Binder', assured us this heartfelt gathering was not photoshopped...

Martha, what do you think?

We don't even need Captain Obvious for this one...

Maybe osteopaths don't believe in antigenic testing....

 All MDs in the United States can only earn their degrees at med schools that are accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME).

 DOs, on the other hand, practice osteopathic medicine.

 This is a more holistic approach to medicine that takes a patient’s environment, diet, and overall well-being into account when determining diagnoses and treatments of medical conditions.

 DOs earn their degree from a school that receives its accreditation from the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA). 

https://www.pbmchealth.org/news-events/blog/allopathic-vs-osteopathic-medicine-know-difference

 'This is a more holistic approach to medicine that takes a patient’s environment, diet, and overall wellbeing into account when determining diagnoses and treatments of medical conditions.'

He graduated from the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Impressive.

Similar to DeVry?

Crooked Joe's appointments probably went like this:

"How are you today, Mr. President?"

Allowing the brain-dead puppet of 'The Politburo' to formulate a sentence...

And waiting...

And waiting...

'Dr.' O'Connor would then awaken this example of the Walking Dead.

Abruptly, like a deer in the headlights, Biden mumbled

"Great!"

Then this osteopath declared, with no objective or didactic evidence, that the guy with the nuclear codes -

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THERE ARE NO MECHANISMS FOR RECALLING A NUCLEAR LAUNCH.

NONE.

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was 'fit as a fiddle'.

Appropriate, as Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

I think he used a cithara, however.

There are Army surgeons worthy of the uniform.

BAMC in San Antonio has further refined their skills after medical school.

The very best are at Walter Reed.

...  a native Hawaiian pig...

Brian Schatz

 This POS Demoncrat declares that 

President Trump is 

"...purposely ruining the economy."

Inflation lowest in  years.

Gas prices, ditto.

Mortgage rates are down.

And on and on...

Drop him from a CH-47.

This amazing volcanic system was dormant in the 1960's.

One day I will discover an often-remembered photo of my father, looking up from inside the volcano after rappelling  for a closer inspection.

Tropic Lightning

I know that old black and white pic is somewhere...

This nine-year-old Army brat was sure proud when my mother shared it with me.

Each time I viewed those family album photos, I  garnered a special enjoyment in those pix where my father's Toxic Masculinity was on display...

Eleven Bravo and on the verge of completion of years-long training as a Jungle Warfare Special Operator...

Southern boys learn early on ...

Don't bring a brick to a gunfight.

The Summer of Love of 2020...

 ... will not be repeated with this CINC.

 President Trump:

You spit.  We hit.

When these assholes test this President, and they will...

The mantra will become...

You spit.  We hit. You sh#t.

 Unlike my few months in San Antonio in 1981, where I enjoyed a few visits to the

and found the ladies were quite attractive, dark hair and eyes with smoking hot bodies...

  Those Chiquita Bonitas were easy on the eyes.

Today, all I see are hideously fat and quite unattractive women who have had way too many tacos and refried beans.

Ugh.

 Again, Air Assault provides a number of platforms for delivery of battlefield-clearing weaponry.

The Apache lends itself well when loitering on the battlefield is required.

In a wider scope of operations, of course, the AC-130 would also provide a prolonged coverage... 

... with 105 mm cannons included at no extra charge.

 Signal intercepts have already determined the preplanning of this chaos and invasion by multiple entities.

Every radical movement in the country is behind this, including the Palestinian acolytes.

Cyberwarfare will identify who and which foreign nations are involved.

 With six thousand rounds per minute of twenty millimeter cannon fire...

 Special Forces can provide laser designation of targets in real time.  

Up close...

 Target acquisitions by these stud infantrymen can make it rain...

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