If you wrote a book about your time in the military, what would you title your book?

2018-11-03T11:05:25-04:00

Response by SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth made Nov 3 at 2018 11:06 AM

2018-11-03T11:06:26-04:00

Life in the Guard.

Response by SGT Mark Rhodes made Nov 3 at 2018 11:06 AM

2018-11-03T11:06:41-04:00

Hurry up and wait.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 3 at 2018 11:06 AM

2018-11-03T11:06:45-04:00

Cold Warrior!

Response by MSgt Stephen Council made Nov 3 at 2018 11:18 AM

2018-11-03T11:18:11-04:00

How much to completely f@*k up your first six years and succeed inspite of yourself!

Response by PVT Mark Zehner made Nov 3 at 2018 11:19 AM

2018-11-03T11:19:16-04:00

Alaska the land without women!

Response by Cpl Mark A. Morris made Nov 3 at 2018 11:25 AM

2018-11-03T11:25:44-04:00

Uncle Sam's Misguided Child
By Mark A. Morris BS, RDMS (AB-OB), RVT. Honorable Discharged USMC 1995

Response by MAJ Ken Landgren made Nov 3 at 2018 11:26 AM

2018-11-03T11:26:00-04:00

From Combat Arms to REMF

Response by SPC Margaret Higgins made Nov 3 at 2018 11:27 AM

2018-11-03T11:27:32-04:00

"THE BEST TIME OF MY LIFE!" CPL Dave Hoover

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 3 at 2018 11:46 AM

2018-11-03T11:46:16-04:00

If Barracks Walls Could Talk

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 3 at 2018 11:52 AM

2018-11-03T11:52:19-04:00

No matter what they tell you, there is always wind on the DZ.

Response by SGT Dave Tracy made Nov 3 at 2018 11:52 AM

2018-11-03T11:52:36-04:00

Hmm, perhaps one of these:
Blink and you'll miss it

Hold my beer and watch this

Bigger toys for bigger boys

Perspectives on life from the front leaning rest position

I ate it too fast to tell you what it was

Damn it Carl!

How to win playing fuck-fuck games...or die trying

Digi-cam warriors

I survived my drill sergeant

Sleep is for the weak

The "peanut butter shot" ain't squat, quit yet bitchin'

How to hold a conversation using acronyms

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 3 at 2018 12:09 PM

2018-11-03T12:09:15-04:00

"High End Mediocre" how we accidentally get shit done

Response by CPT Zachary Brooks made Nov 3 at 2018 12:26 PM

2018-11-03T12:26:24-04:00

Buses: Backing over you or running you down

Response by SGT Bill Spiker made Nov 3 at 2018 12:27 PM

2018-11-03T12:27:00-04:00

How much money i wasted on booze!

Response by CW4 Guy Butler made Nov 3 at 2018 12:42 PM

2018-11-03T12:42:14-04:00

Murphy was an Optimist: Logistics in OIF 1.

Response by SSG Byron Howard Sr made Nov 3 at 2018 12:42 PM

2018-11-03T12:42:39-04:00

Remf NOT.

Response by PO1 William "Chip" Nagel made Nov 3 at 2018 12:47 PM

2018-11-03T12:47:44-04:00

"I Was the Forrest Gump of Military Intelligence"

Response by TSgt Joe C. made Nov 3 at 2018 1:11 PM

2018-11-03T13:11:15-04:00

Stationed at both borders! Seriously, stationed at Grand Forks, ND and San Antonio, TX. Both within a 1.5-2 hr drive to Canada or Mexico. Not once but twice. New Mexico and now Malmstrom AFB in Montana.

Response by CAPT Kevin B. made Nov 3 at 2018 1:52 PM

2018-11-03T13:52:45-04:00

A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Front. My devious mind has all sorts of parallels based on The Forum version.

Response by CMSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 3 at 2018 2:21 PM

2018-11-03T14:21:14-04:00

If it Works...Fix it.

Response by SGT Philip Roncari made Nov 3 at 2018 2:27 PM

2018-11-03T14:27:32-04:00

I’d have to plagiarize from Charles Dickens” A Tale Of Two Cities”” It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”.

Response by COL Mikel J. Burroughs made Nov 3 at 2018 3:14 PM

2018-11-03T15:14:41-04:00

I've got to think about that CPL Dave Hoover - Remind me to come back and answer again. Thanks, Mikel

Response by TSgt David L. made Nov 3 at 2018 5:02 PM

2018-11-03T17:02:55-04:00

The Long Walk.

Response by CPL Mark Andersen made Nov 3 at 2018 5:04 PM

2018-11-03T17:04:52-04:00

How to Sham, and other ways to get out of work and still get promoted.

Response by COL Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 3 at 2018 5:09 PM

2018-11-03T17:09:09-04:00

The Times We Shared or The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 3 at 2018 5:34 PM

2018-11-03T17:34:19-04:00

In charge of Freedom or Where is my Babysitter? - A Soldiers tale.

Response by SMSgt Thor Merich made Nov 3 at 2018 10:28 PM

2018-11-03T22:28:35-04:00

Green to Blue

Response by SN Greg Wright made Nov 3 at 2018 11:23 PM

2018-11-03T23:23:55-04:00

They really mean it when they tell you to report your foreign national girlfriend.

Response by 1SG Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 4 at 2018 2:39 AM

2018-11-04T02:39:16-05:00

NoBody Cares! My life as an NBC Soldier

Response by PO1 Brian Austin made Nov 4 at 2018 3:10 AM

2018-11-04T03:10:58-05:00

"Every Day a Holiday, Every Night a Party - Tales of a Junior Sailor in Panama and The Philippines"
"I Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny - My Life as a Navy Spook"

Response by SP5 Mark Kuzinski made Nov 4 at 2018 9:19 AM

2018-11-04T09:19:52-05:00

"Unbelievable" Notes about my three years in the US Army.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 4 at 2018 4:37 PM

2018-11-04T16:37:39-05:00

"BOOTS"

Response by SFC Christopher Taggart made Nov 4 at 2018 5:55 PM

2018-11-04T17:55:42-05:00

"I Would Do It Again..."

Response by SGM Gregory Tarancon IV made Nov 5 at 2018 6:50 AM

2018-11-05T06:50:18-05:00

What brotherhood really means?

Response by SPC Anna Larson made Nov 5 at 2018 10:18 AM

2018-11-05T10:18:22-05:00

"The Dogs and Horses of Ft. Huachucha"

Response by LTC Wayne Dandridge made Nov 5 at 2018 11:05 AM

2018-11-05T11:05:39-05:00

The title would be "The Definition of Infantry in Vietnam" (we helicopter pilots customers and brothers). Here below is the definition written that is at the end of Chapter 11 of the award wining, all five-star reviewed, military history, and action book, BLADES OF THUNDER (Book One).

INFANTRY IN VIETNAM
Enlisting, training, and learning; deploying, landing, and assigning; training, recon-ing, and patrolling; sweating, hoping, wishing, and praying; planning, coordinating, following, and leading; running, and waiting, flying, fearing, missing, and taking and retaking; anticipating; shaking, locking, and loading; jumping, assaulting, shooting, taking, and retaking; crawling, sweating, listening, scratching, sneaking, taking and retaking; searching, attacking, bayoneting, taking, and retaking; resting, recuperating, firing, throwing, suffocating, slogging, mortaring, cursing, and swimming; fainting, fumbling, cutting, and sliding; climbing, observing, carrying, shelling, and loving; crying, infiltrating, slogging, ambushing, searching, and destroying; yearning, coughing, craving, taking, and retaking; complaining, begging, blasting, smoking, resupplying, and fighting; falling, swearing, drinking, directing, and blasting; digging, building, grieving, praying, yelling, taking, and retaking; inserting, bleeding, reckoning, blessing, toke-ing, and extracting; thanking, humping, wailing, winning, losing, taking, and retaking; vomiting, securing, slapping, pulling, observing, releasing, tapping, and shooting; dragging, lacking, lobbing, loathing, hating, and vietnamizing; farting, foaming, frothing, fortifying, fumbling, taking and retaking; evacuating, extracting, excruciating, advancing, and retreating, wadding, wobbling, wanting, washing, and never drying; voiding, vomiting, mourning, exhilarating, and suppressing; surprising, confusing, drenching, taking, and retaking; digging, dogging, remembering, and forgetting; breathing, blowing, surviving, taking, and retaking; chilling, falling, peeing, day dreaming, bingeing, breaking, taking, and retaking; worrying, wounding, hurting, and dying; bloating, bagging, and draping; saluting, honoring, folding, and presenting; and burying, suffering, mourning, and grieving!

Best regards, W. Larry Dandridge, Ex-Infantry and Retired Army Aviation LTC and Editor and Author with TVV Publishing LLC, Email: [login to see] and phone [login to see]

Response by SFC William Stephens A. Jr., 3 MSM, JSCM made Nov 5 at 2018 2:18 PM

2018-11-05T14:18:37-05:00

I just currently got published and my book I wrote about my time in service and PTSD Called "THE MIRROR"

Response by SGT Jim Ramge, MBA made Nov 5 at 2018 2:24 PM

2018-11-05T14:24:19-05:00

Some signed-on for 3-6 yrs, others for life - then there were those that forgot to read the fine print!

Response by SFC Dennis A. made Nov 5 at 2018 3:26 PM

2018-11-05T15:26:21-05:00

You wouldn't believe me even if I told you.

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 5 at 2018 3:43 PM

2018-11-05T15:43:49-05:00

"I've Seen It All, Nothing Can Surpri--- WHAT!?! You Got To Be Kidding Me: The Story of the Man Who Keeps Being Surprised by Stupid Stuff."

Response by SrA John Monette made Nov 6 at 2018 9:50 PM

2018-11-06T21:50:03-05:00

holy crap, I survived

Response by SSG Pamela D Jones made Nov 6 at 2018 11:41 PM

2018-11-06T23:41:47-05:00

It's Not Easy Being Green is the title I would use

Response by PO1 Kevin Arnold made Nov 7 at 2018 10:47 AM

2018-11-07T10:47:00-05:00

The Wounder Years. I know it was a tv show but also the main character had the same name as me Kevin Arnold. He was played by Fred Savage.

Response by SSG Byron Howard Sr made Nov 7 at 2018 11:22 AM

2018-11-07T11:22:35-05:00

If you are going to pretend we are are not here. Then we are going to pretend we are.

Response by SSG Byron Howard Sr made Nov 7 at 2018 11:36 AM

2018-11-07T11:36:21-05:00

A fellow photographer has a book of photos from the military titled. How'd you get that job. If I had a quarter for every time I heard that all you guys would work for me.

Response by MSgt Richard Randall made Nov 7 at 2018 12:35 PM

2018-11-07T12:35:02-05:00

"Below Grade"

It means you're underground working on stuff that goes boom...

Response by CW3 Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 10 at 2018 11:54 AM

2018-11-10T11:54:33-05:00

"Could've Done It Better"

Response by SGT Leroy Brown made Nov 11 at 2018 7:28 PM

2018-11-11T19:28:06-05:00

How a flower blossomed from sh*t.

Response by SN Jay Perry made Nov 11 at 2018 7:55 PM

2018-11-11T19:55:51-05:00

Practical lessons learned from some of the best leaders I've ever met in some of the worst leaders I've ever met!

Response by PO1 Wesley Jolly made Nov 18 at 2018 10:42 PM

2018-11-18T22:42:19-05:00

What A Long Strange Trip Its Been
One man's quest to get their hearts and minds to follow without having them by the balls

Response by CAPT James McClure made Nov 24 at 2018 5:01 PM

2018-11-24T17:01:57-05:00

Rejected by ROTC

Response by Maj Dale Smith made Nov 24 at 2018 7:11 PM

2018-11-24T19:11:42-05:00

The Art of Warfare, Having Fun, and Never Getting Caught.

Response by MSG Ed Luhrman made Nov 24 at 2018 7:32 PM

2018-11-24T19:32:58-05:00

WTF did I just Do?!

Response by MSG Ed Luhrman made Nov 24 at 2018 9:08 PM

2018-11-24T21:08:14-05:00

Go right ahead if you need some additional ohshit what did I just do let me know

Response by MCPO Rick Hoffmann made Nov 30 at 2018 5:57 PM

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SNAFU or How we the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.”

Response by SPC William Anderson made Dec 11 at 2018 12:26 AM

2018-12-11T00:26:22-05:00

Always be ready

Response by SSgt Vincent Sarno made Feb 27 at 2020 1:23 PM

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There and back again, and again, and again, and again......

Response by SFC Casey O'Mally made Oct 13 at 2020 11:22 AM

2020-10-13T11:22:10-04:00

I Wasn't Trained For This

Are you a Radar or a Klinger? True stories of the Orderly Room

If You Don't Know How the Sausage is Made, You're Probably the Pig.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 13 at 2020 1:46 PM

2020-10-13T13:46:59-04:00

Andy. How a ground squirrel saved my life.

Response by SMSgt Henry Kiester made Apr 7 at 2021 5:07 PM

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I hurried up...and waited...my story.