Dio be krazy

It’s 0700 right now,,, I have to go pickup Burnout here shortly and get our butts to the J.O.B.

And I have spent this morning putting 85/90 gear oil in the rear Diff of Buff, made a breakfast, had a cuppa, and contemplated the various differences of War that have taken place in the last 100 years since 1914 (the start of WW1 the supposed war to end all wars.)

wha?!?!?!

Where the heck did that come from,,,

We’re talking Dio, my mind never rests on ONE thing, EVER!!!

I was thinking how WW1, the aeroplane (terms from then) was THE game changer then,,

NOW, we have Drones, remotely piloted flying bombs, and tactical info gatherers.

and somehow, there are still trenches in use,,, Seems a bit dated,,, And, as a Marine, my take on ‘Trenches’ is: pre-dug grave. Marines were (are?) taught move and manuever tactics,,, small squad stuff where you have 4 or 5 man fireteams, three fireteams make a platoon, four platoons make a company, and 4-5 companies make a battalion. Numbers are sorta fluid, and ranks/hierarchy gets pretty fluid too. I was the perpetual PFC during my time (even though I was eventually promoted to Sgt, busted down to Corporal,,, Self and the Marines had different points of view about things,,) but I held a Gunnies billet for 2 years, because we just didn’t have the personal with time in to fill all the slots. Let me tell ya, being a not so buck private in rank holding a slot that was 5 paygrades higher sorta sucked,,, Ya have the responsibility, but not the rank to back it up. Some Corporal decided he didn’t wanna,,, You could get ugly, but you had better have a shit ton of witnesses on your side,,,, Office hours and I were pretty regular acquantences. (and a large part of why the Marines and I had our falling out in 92)

but I was talking Drones.

Starting to look like my book Wings has a slightly prophetic spin to it. Wouldn’t it be a hoot if Trump were re-elected and some of the details of my book started to take place (the National divorce thing for instance)?

Not a fun time to be had, but then, whatever is coming, no matter which fork in the road this country takes, there are no fun times to be had in the bigger picture; are there?

but its time to get a move on, not sit here tapping away my thoughts (which I would highly prefer to do and wait until light out so I can get the Buff back up to snuff,,,, Gotta make the duckies to buy her stuff first,,,, Can’t win for losin’,,,,

Keep on livin’