I actually got my start with guns when I did competition Olympic style shooting when I younger. I dabble in more practical shooting sports now like IDPA and I wish to get into three gun.

I guess that makes me an asshole (for the second one, I actually can’t stand the elements of gun culture who spout that Molon Labe crap). Now I’m not trolling, or attempting to piss you or anyone else off but I am curious about a few things. Being fully realistic how would you go about reducing the amount of guns in…

I just posted but I got mine the same way, we were in Mainz and I got mine in 88. Army Brat high five!

I had that same lego bucket, and I’m pretty sure we had that TV too...and I might have had pajamas that looked just like that....shit I think this could be most of us from the 80s.

We were stationed in Mainz Germany when we got our NES. We got one in 1988 my dad had just done an FTX in Vilseck (in Bavaria) and I guess the PX there had them in stock (the PX and AAFES in general was so very ass backwards in the 80s, hard to get anything). He came into the house making a big deal about how heavy…

By saying Derek Smart’s name three times we summon him, or at least that was the theory way back when.

I feel like if you had a news letter I would subscribe to it.

My dad was an officer and I never noticed this, where we lived though it was senior enlisted and officers mixed together and that’s quite a bit different than where most of the enlisted families lived. I went to DoDDs schools exclusively and our sponsors rank (read: parent) didn’t really come up except in the general…

AFN in the 80s was truly, truly terrible. You can find many of their “commercials” on youtube if you want a good laugh though. Though when PCSed for the last time back stateside in early 2003 (stayed for a bit after I graduated high school because hey, living in Germany is awesome) AFN had more channels and wasn’t…

I went to 7th grade at George S. Patton Jr. middle school in Levanworth, to this day I’m still pretty sure it had a bigger budget than the college I went to. I think DoDDs was trying to over-awe all of the foreign officers kids at CGSC.

Mainz, Wurzburg, Vilseck, Heidelberg (we vacationed in Garmisch a few times, lovely place). Then Bragg, Benning, Hood, and Leavenworth stateside (in no particular order). Thanks for writing this, moving out into the Civilian side of things has been less easy than I anticipated, though now at 33 years old I’ve gotten…