Former Action Guy

So last Sunday had disaster written all over it. I had registered and committed to doing the Quad Cities Marathon, that however was not the ...

            We pulled up below the military crest of the small hillock and dismounted our vehicles as quietly as possible. It was just befo...

A few weeks ago I posted about how sometimes in addition to my regular job I also volunteer as an Emergency Medical Technician at a rural am...

The Inaugural New Bo Fest Half Marathon was the first half marathon held in my hometown in about 15 years I think. Despite just finishing a...

OK, so again I entered the fray and tried my second mountain bike race of the year. My first attempt at mountain bike racing did not go ver...

Today was great day, for a 12 hour period I was back in the fold. I was once again an Action Guy if only for a day. My employer asked me a ...

So last weekend was a very busy one although unintended, I had scheduled myself to be on duty at the Lisbon Mt Vernon Ambulance Service on S...

Like most people I am not a professional athlete, nor have I ever been one. I am not even an amateur athlete as I don't consider that my...

We had established our patrol base in the Iraqi village of Klaw Kut . After dusk myself and my A team had moved out in our Land Rover ...

As many of you know and many do not I spend a lot of time doing "jobs" that aren't really jobs. My wife claims I am a workahol...

  Ran in the Alliant Energy 5K again this year as I have done every year for the last 10, unless I was deployed. Ran 4 minutes faster than ...

On my second deployment to Kosovo in 2000, I was the acting Team Sergeant of an ODA out of 1 st Bn 10 th SFG (A) in Boeblingen , Germa...

I have tried to follow somewhat of a pattern here on my blog. One war story and followed by something more current. War Stories and random t...

As any fan of the recently concluded TV Series LOST can tell you the character of Desmond Hume was the "constant" for the island. ...