January 17, 2013 |
The Most Random Number Is 17. Many people ask me why I frequently publish stuff on the 17th of the month. To those people I say, “How did you get this phone number?” The short answer is that 17 is …...
November 11, 2011 |
Remembering F-Flight On Veterans Day. I was in the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) from 1984-1988 while a student at MIT, commissioned in 1988 as a second lieutenant, served on active duty until 1992, and was in the …...
August 5, 2011 |
A marching drill used for training Air Force cadets in the 1980s. When I was in AFROTC at MIT (1984-1988), we used “The 54 Commands” as a marching-training drill. I believe the drill was timed and you had to start …...
