A little over a year ago I published an article on lifeinthearmy.com, titled “The Big Lie About the US Army – What the US Army is not telling the American People”. In it I talk about the standards being higher now, than ever, especially physical fitness, the Army Combat Fitness Te...
If you don’t have a physical WBGT device or an alerting service from a trusted real-time weather data provider, you can use a chart (like the one provided below) to estimate wet bulb globe temperature using a combination of the current temperature and relative humidity. As this is just ...
28 The real causes of most back pain are obscured by medical mythology and misunderstanding,29 and a thick fog of nonsense constantly spewing forth from an army of quacks trying to compensate for medicine’s failure to help. Before I discuss what kind of things might be the “real causes”...
is one of the greatest challenges we have on our hands, as well as the greatest opportunity. Communicating with clarity on these issues is vital. I know no one wants to spend any time on anything these days, but this is three and a half hours that...
(6) At about the same time a panic occurred in the German army of Emperor Otto I because of a solar eclipse that the soldiers mistook as a sign of the end of the world.(7) And when the last Carolingian dynasty fell with the death of King Louis V in 987, many saw this event as...
Fair enough, but did you know that this is the biggest pitfall so many of us, foreigners, fall for? You see – the problem is that we may know large lists of individual words, yet we struggle to USE them as part of a simple conversation! To see what exactly I’m talking about, pl...
David Bramnick is General Manager for KCBS-AM, "740 NEWS" in San Francisco. In 2005 he married Travel Agent Amber Medkiff. They chose the Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley for the wedding ceremony, designed to evoke Phantom of the Opera. “We are the first people who ever got married ...
it is unlikely that Europeans would have so readily prevailed in conquering the Western hemisphere. One reason Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory so cheaply to the United States is that a large contingent of his army was wiped out by yellow fever (a mosquito-borne virus) in Haiti and he ...
Many runners suffer from injuries. No information on high-risk populations is available so far though. The aims of this study were to systematically review
Playboy Andy Mason, on leave from the army, romances showgirl Edie Allen overnight to such effect that she's starry-eyed when he leaves next morning for active duty in the Pacific. Only trouble is, he gave her the assumed name of Casey. Andy's eventual return with a medal is celebrated...