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To The Burning Ground: It once was my life

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Medal Of Honor for Richard Etchberger:

The base was called Texas. The names given to outposts in Laos. Secured by sheer cliffs but only a few days away from north vietnam. An easy march for the North Vietnamese.

As I write this I have just moved to Texas, flat. That is part of the irony of military jargon.

There will be more of these sotries of places that we never were, but about a hundred of us know better. Maps? Anybody still have the false flight maps we used?

War Is Endless. Without Points. A very odd geometry.

We can’t decline heros to zero.

I wonder why we keep calling them radar bases?

Doctor, Lawyer, India Chief

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In the days before PCs and PCness jump ropers all knew these steps. Post MBA, CxO, the table talk makes everyone a Chief Something Or Other, comes the claims of grandeur, at least of title from India.
WSJ hosts a blog “India Chief Mentor” that claims answers to India’s startup questions.
In the colonized countries without privilege of power, it seems odd that “title” is still the thing clung to.

Remember, Raj, you’re a gun bearer, and that in itself is a privilege. No need for you to read.
I say, keep that bloody thing out of the mud, boy. It is worth more than your entire family. — from the little jungle books.

Maybe Raj should lay claim to the title “Chief Gun Bearer”