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Who Goes There - Zeb
Major Zebediah Brighton: Operations As LTC Slasher’s operations man, Zeb takes the brunt of the colonel’s insanity. Fully as anal as Slasher but lacking most of the micromanaging control issues and ge… more →
Onca Seren
Who Goes There - Zeb
Seren wrote 3 weeks ago: Major Zebediah Brighton: Operations As LTC Slasher’s operations man, Zeb takes the brunt of the colo … more →
Mad Moments 4: Friendly Fire
Seren wrote 4 weeks ago: Autumn 2006 Traveling has taken on a novel and ironic new danger lately. The fresh battalion that re … more →
The Pauses - 6
Seren wrote 4 weeks ago: Tonight at dinner Jeff asked if I was in the Reserves. Tom almost spit his drink all over the table. … more →
The Pauses - 5
Seren wrote 4 weeks ago: Driving across the vast plain of desert down by The Tree (the only Tree) I saw two foxes. They must … more →
The Pauses - 4
Seren wrote 4 weeks ago: Out on the endlessly flat, tan, hot, sandy desert next to one of the many beat-to-shit, single lane, … more →
Who Goes There: Just Too Jivin' Jake
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Seren wrote 4 weeks ago: Just Too Jivin’ Jake: ConRep A Vo-Tech educated, self-described biker dude electrician, Just Too Jiv … more →
Solving The Problems 1
Seren wrote 1 month ago: Summer 2007 On our way to work out at the gym each day, Boss Tom and I trade updates on various subj … more →
A Day In The Field - Month 9 (or ...)
Seren wrote 1 month ago: Mad Moments 5 (or …) How Projects Get Messed Up (or …) Spring 2007 I dragged ex-boss Tom … more →
Who Goes There: Lt Willy Beal
Seren wrote 1 month ago: Lt Willy Beal – BCH Resident Engineer Being the Resident Engineer for the Bestest Children’s Hospita … more →
Who Goes There: Spike Abbot
Seren wrote 1 month ago: Spike Abbot – Camp Manager A rangy Texan with a twenty-hour-a-day work addiction, Spike Abbot runs t … more →
Who Goes There: LTC Corviday
Seren wrote 1 month ago: LTC Corbin Corviday, a.k.a. Crowsie, Resident Engineer LTC Corbin Corviday is a forty-something Rese … more →
Who Goes There: Boss Tom
Seren wrote 1 month ago: Boss Tom, Area Engineer (later Chief of E & C) The most oft-used word to describe Tom: steady. T … more →
Who Goes There: Anna Lee
Seren wrote 1 month ago: Anna Lee, Adminstrative Assistant Anna Lee is a short little fifty-something fireball from Georgia. … more →
When Projects Work or How Contracts Get Messed Up
Seren wrote 1 month ago: Spring 2007 Today CMD Mike went to the site of a small water treatment plant in order to conduct the … more →
How Contracts Get Messed Up - 3
Seren wrote 1 month ago: Early winter 2006 Until today, one of my favorite projects was dead on schedule, a rare occurrence i … more →
How Contracts Get Messed Up - 2
Seren wrote 1 month ago: I’d love to be more specific in describing the perpetual and colossal clusterfuck that this project … more →
Mr. H & Iffat
Seren wrote 1 month ago: The man who wrote this letter to me in the winter of 2006-07 was one of the Iraqi engineers on my … more →
Faaris - 1
Seren wrote 1 month ago: “Is it a good thing that Saddam is gone?” I ask Faaris, one of my Iraqi engineers. I know from other … more →
Hakim - 2
Seren wrote 1 month ago: Hakim’s eyes are still large and haunted two days after the Brit Mil battle outside his house. “A je … more →
