In "Stumbling and Bumbling My Way to and Through War" I take the reader
through many of the army adventures I have told to my kids in a
"campfire" storytelling style. In life, I told the stories to my kids
which fit the mood, at the time, but here I placed my adventures in
chronological order for the reader's convenience. The stories begin with
learning how to jump out of airplanes at seventeen and ends with my
deployment to Afghanistan as a Green Beret Medic. It's filled with
clumsy parachute events, humanitarian work in Thailand, scuba diving
with monsters, humbling land navigation, getting into the Ivy League,
tantrums in the desert heat, falling out of helicopters, playing with
the press, glorious beards, mortal combat with a vicious chicken, living
and learning with great Afghani soldiers, ruby hunting, and simple
survival in the valley of death. War is such a crazy event and I did my
best to convey it at a respectful level of humorous "campfire" stories.
Please enjoy, document your own crazy adventures ....and do share.
