• The SCIF

    There are special rooms in a number of buildings within the United States that are highly restricted areas. In the United States capitol building alone there are a number of very nondescript rooms behind doors in numbered hallways, and they look just like any other doorway in the capitol building. Most people have no idea

  • To all my readers

    I’m going to try something a bit different this coming Friday; I’m going to post a Short Story entitled “The Ambush at Nhon-Nhin-Three; Command Decision”. It was one of the stories that I didn’t use in my book “The Advisor; Kien Bing, South Vietnam 1969-1970 – A Novel.” Pleases take some time to read the

  • Vietnam Advisor series; ‘Exotic foods’.

    Welcome Back! As advisors, we encountered changes in our diets. Initially housed at a large replacement depot in Saigon, I awaited my assignment at Camp Alpha, located at Tân Sơn Nhựt Airforce Base. During this time, we processed in, received uniforms, weapons, field equipment, and managed (or mismanaged) administrative and financial matters. My pay and