My Books
How Stephen King solved my plot problem.
I’m in the throes of writing my fourth book. It’s fiction but based on a trip I took to the Philippines way back in 1989 when I was a junior officer in the US Air Force. I have a bunch of stories I want to share but here’s the rub … how do I connect […]
The First Gulf War … it’s been 25 Years!
Twenty five years ago were were just days away from the start of the First Gulf War. I was stationed in a remote Australian outback town called Woomera where the US Air Force operated a satellite tracking station. We were in the missile detection business. Our satellites could “see” the Iraq and Kuwait areas so when […]
What’s the worst thing about losing your job?
What’s the worst thing about losing your job? I have first hand experience in answering this question. You see, back in 1994 I conducted a real life experiment. I was able to find out for myself the worst thing about losing your job. I didn’t volunteer for the assignment – it was thrust upon me. […]
Yanks in the Outback – Exhibit B
My latest book Yanks in the Outback is in diary format. I decided to write it this way partly because … I kept a real diary while stationed in Woomera during the First Gulf War. Of course the book is all typed up neatly and easy to read but the raw diary is a bit […]
Yanks in the Outback – Exhibit A
In my latest book Yanks in the Outback, I mention a program I wrote to calculate the ground station antenna pointing angles for “looking” at a geosynchronous satellite. I came across the program in one of my folders and thought “Why not share it?” Who knows, there may be a few folks interested to know […]