Day: October 5, 2016

@ Each year Army reserve officers from every walk of life soldier during their two-week annual training. As an active duty officer during one such training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina I was having trouble getting a lesson across to a reservist. “Look,” I said, “it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to get this right.” The reservist stopped, looked straight at me and replied, “but I am a rocket scientist.”

*Explaining my diet discipline to a friend: “if I make it through the day without eating ice cream, I reward myself with chocolate chip cookies.”

Russian dictator Putin says he may run for re-election next year. In fact, today he went over the results of next year’s election and he said it looks pretty good.