After nearly two decades of African safaris, I’ve learned some things. This is how I see Africa. It’s a place where you can drink too much whisky at night, and not feel it the next morning. It’s a place where you can get blood on your hands and feel no need to wash it off. It’s where you can forget there are …
Every red-blooded hunter or outdoorsman has heard of Jeremiah Johnson, or they have at least watched the movie several times. Loosely based on the book Crow Killer, which was about a real mountain man named John Jeremiah Garrison “Liver-Eating” Johnson, the movie has become an iconic anthem to hunters. Every hunter, whether they’ll admit it or not, thinks they’re a little bit like Jeremiah …
Shorty after our unit transitioned to the M1 Main Battle Tank, I was assigned as the Range NCO for the upcoming qualification. An officer was also assigned as the Range OIC; he was mostly there to take the credit for what I and my guys did right, or to blame us for what went wrong. The monkey, as they say, was on …
