Thanksgiving Update

 

Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Americans.

This particular picture by Norman Rockwell, shows a cook at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont after his Thanksgiving holiday. Working in frozen food distribution, I can empathize. 

As an aside, the former Fort Ethan Allen is now a lovely bucolic neighborhood in Colchester, Vermont and many of the buildings from the fort are still in use. Camp Johnson, the Headquarters for the Vermont National Guard, is a baseball throw down the road from the old fort. 

Weekend Update

 Finally returned from an exercise with my National Guard unit. Several days of a digital operation supporting our higher headquarters. 

At the end of the training, one of the things we need to do is shred a lot of paper, and bins are provided for us to dispose of what needs to be shredded. 

As I was putting a stack of papers into the bin, I noticed someone from another brigade's response cell had a sense of humour. 

One joker's simulation of a RQ-7 Raven UAV...

Well, you can't say we don't know how to laugh at ourselves... I'll back at the next edition of this exercise in January. Maybe I'll fly this one back to its original owners...