My first day at AMMO, Edwards AFB, CA. 

The first guy I met had been on Okinawa with me 30 years before.

Kadena, AFB.

Big Pine Creek, CA.

Palisades Wilderness Area. AKA the wild. 

 Antelope Valley Fair. Edwards AFB/Antelope Valley, CA

Big and Rich headlining. 

My Guru. These guys were 80, and they walked up 11 miles to Clouds Rest, Yosemite National Park. I was absolutely dying, but figured, hell, if 80-year-olds can make it in this heat, I can. Ran out of water, it was miserable.

The secret is out of the box now. The MOP. Yeah, it works too.

Sadie went on vacation with the Doodles. Was feeling it. The wild.

Once you get older, walking up mountains is not so much fun. You go to the Jeep and start high. Nobody wants to go, but Doodles, the wild is full of mosquitoes, and the weather is often cold or hot or wet or windy with all the above. Washington is no joke wilderness. 

The Columbia River. Turned into a very large lake above Vantage, Washington.

Across the river is the Ginkgo Wilderness area. This is off Frenchman's Coulee.

It is a great area before it gets hot. 

May is finally here. Still snow up higher and in giant piles here and there. Diamond Head Mountain, Wenatchee Mountains, WA. Just me and the Doodles as usual. 

 Winter on the Ginkgo, Vantage, WA. The only place where there is no snow. Lots of Elk and Deer though. Columbia River.

Defending the Frontiers of Democracy 20th anniversary edition

Defending the Frontiers of Democracy 20th AnniversaryEbook edition of events on this blog and more.

20 years! Time Flys. Slip of the curl. 

Lock an Load

                                                        Lock and Load. 

USAF

IYAAYAS. 2010-2014. Conventional, Flight Test, Edwards AFB CA. F35 ramp up. B1 B2 B52. 

F22 ramps also. Retirement of last Space Shuttle, NASA Ramp/Armstrong Center. 

Cocaine Bear

I cannot run anymore. However, I try to plod around the mountains in search of the Cocaine Bear or Bigfoot. 
 

Retired

 I finally get my big $600 a month check. Air Assault! "I Volunteer Sir"

2nd Lieutenant Dan Hendy Sr (RET) USA Armor.

20 years since 2003-04. Hope all are well!

Pumped up kicks

August 2023 

My old truck Yosemite National Park

Shop is under Lost Arrow 

and

Yosemite Falls, left 2015.

 

Oops.

NTC okay I drove 200 yards onto it so have been there now

Working at Edwards AFB now.







Old Tankers Never Die they just go around taking stupid photos of old tanks.

The XO at Fort Sill "Check or Hold" 2010 and a walk through 2005

The man, the myth, the legend, he sweet talked the Iraqi women from being suicide bombers with his charm, then he hardened the Balad Ruz ING HQ, built the only live fire range used during the entire deployment to include grenading bunkers, got out the vote, and like Patton he was with J.E.B. Stuart in another life, previously as a cannoneer, unfortunately back then the rifles outranged the cannons so he was tragically shot dead at Chickamauga, he came back as Union mule skinner though. Currently he fires the said cannon seen here at the daily flag raising at Fort Sill, the honor goes to the those older than the cannon, or closest to that mark.

He re-enlisted only those that would take the Oath on the Iranian border within rifle fire range of the Iranian "elite" border patrol militia who screamed "Jihad" "Death to America" as the oath was adiministered, Hooooahs and Rebel yells being returned by the Tennesseans providing overwatch.

He sat inconspicuosly on the Tank main gun for the unit photo, and in the MiTT photo on his Hummer, A65 "always looking for trouble".

He commanded the elite secret American motorcycle assault team in Iraq, he is currently in training for the 20th Group bicycle attack sapper team, the bike frames are actually filled with high-explosives and magnetized so you can stick them to a metal bridge, or 550 cord them, this innocent looking model he is sitting on in a secret location is actually a weapon of mass destruction. Specialized now has a whole new meaning. (Special Forces had to have the word "Specialized" of course yielding the new "Specialized Special Forces" monikor).

Graduation Photo of the Field Artillery Career Course now included, truely a renaissance man, farmer, warrior, poet, lover, and athelete.

SPC Light and Simms(? spelling) Athens Park 2010

Athens Park 2010, and Iraq 2005, that is Light in between Rios and Dalton on the other end of the stretcher and humping the MK19 40mm Grenade launcher outside our CHUs at "Battle Position Caldwell" FOB Caldwell/KMTB.

Simms is going back a-gain, Godspeed to bold and the brave! Sergeant Simms already has survived one fight, April 4th 2005.