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A Little About Me

Hello! My name is Adam, and I wanted to tell you a little about myself and this blog’s purpose. I’m a career soldier, and I have been serving since 2006. I started as a linguist and later became a helicopter pilot. Notice I waited to tell you I was a pilot until the 2nd sentence […]

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Sometimes you just read something, and it resonates with you. It hits you in exactly the right spot in your soul at exactly the right moment you need it to hit you. Yesterday was that point for me. It’s significant in that it was the 11th anniversary of my friend and teammate Mike Hosey passing […]

The Best “Worst” Times

As a young buck sergeant, I had an Afghan interpreter die in my arms during my first firefight of many In Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan. Rounds impacted the mud hut wall above my head as I ducked behind a 3-foot tall mud wall. The lead men in our patrol are dragging our interpreter with them, dropping […]