Life in the Air

September 30, 1986. A date I can never forget. Anyone who has served in the military knows their date of entry into active duty. This was mi...

John Belushi in "Animal House" (Universal Studios, 1978)  I briefly played football in college. I was recruited from a smash-mo...

Soviet invasion, (jakiterunner.wordpress.com) As a middle school student in the late '70's, I was vaguely aware of Afghanistan...

Remember this cartoon? Somewhere south of the Iraq border, January 1991 Let's return to the desert. Hundreds of thousands of troops...

In 2005, one of my very first utility jobs was a power line inspection with a company under contract for the Bonneville Power Administration...

In July 1999, in keeping with my migrant helicopter worker tradition, I moved to Reno Nevada. I left a Fox TV news helicopter job in Houston...