Past is Prologue

  Yeah, 2020 will be a year that no one will want to remember. Perhaps, like me, everyone everywhere is hoping to see this stupid year in th...

When I started this series, I discussed my hesitancy to talk about the Navy because it made me nervous. Now you know why. The whole story w...

The time spent at Portsmouth Naval Hospital wasn't only hot wax and red rubber balls. I only had duty one weekend out of four, so other...

I like to think that the motives driving people are mostly good and positive. But when the doc suggested it may be time for my index finger...

It was a little odd how I was perceived by the Medical Corpsmen I worked closest with. They viewed me a bit deferentially because I was an ...

  One of the things that shape you in the armed forces is your new-found self-reliance. You must take care of yourself, because no one else...

As my days staying at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Hospital and Holiday Resort were coming to an end, I was informed that the next part of my...

The surgical ward at Guantanamo Bay Naval Hospital was populated by quite an eclectic bunch. The Marine next to me had a hole in his back ...

The Guantanamo Bay Naval Hospital is located right on a little peninsula that juts out into the Caribbean.   I arrived at the hospital...

No matter how hard you try, you just can't beat physics. Do the math and if the math doesn't work, then the thing won't work. T...