Book Review – Principles of Flight: Flying Bush Planes Through a World of War, Sexism, and Meat

by Bill Hatcher Lantern Books, 274 pages ISBN 9781590565742 Reviewed by Martha Quillen Principles of Flight is a memoir and a treatise against war, sexism, religion, capitalism, militarism, government policies, and eating meat. It contains lots of geographic color, general information and political commentary. But it has the spirit of a literary novel, and is …

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A Farmer Far Afield–American Schnitzel: The War on Peace

by John Mattingly Note: this is the first in a three-part series that looks at the current cultural sausage being made by our U.S. military, starting with the curious case of the American Sniper, followed by the troubling question of military honor and why our high-powered, big-dollar U.S. military keeps losing wars. The final piece …

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Military aircraft test sky over Gunnison

Brief by Allen Best

Military – October 2006 – Colorado Central Magazine

The V-22 Osprey is a hybrid between a helicopter and a fixed-wing airplane. It goes up and down like a helicopter, but then can scoot fast like a plane. And it has been doing all three in the Gunnison-Crested Butte area since early August.

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Locals generally less likely to enlist

Brief by Central Staff

Military – January 2006 – Colorado Central Magazine

Rural communities throughout the United States, including Colorado, produce a higher percentage of military recruits, according to a study by the National Priorities Project in Northampton, Mass., which examined the Zip codes of enlistees in 2004.

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Green Berets will invade South Park

Brief by Central Staff

Military – February 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine

The wind often provides a good excuse for staying indoors in South Park during March, but the U.S. Army is providing another one: Green Berets will be training there March 1-19.

The scenario, according to Maj. Ernie Benner of the 10th Special Forces Group, is that “You have an armed guerrilla force in your county trying to overthrow the current government. The Green Berets are coming in to help the guerrillas.”

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