Military Stories

Uprooted from rural Dorset as a child, Jack Barnesfield is given a second chance when he is taken in by a farming family in Ontario. As he grows to manhood, war, love and old grievances shape his life. From the trenches of the Great War to the quiet fields of Canada, Jack journeys in search of justice, only to learn that the things of the past are sometimes best left in the past.

RAF girl Rachel Sandeman gets herself in a bit of trouble after calling her Sergeant a dick head. Flying officer Cousins overhears this and gives her an ultimatum she will never forget

Random recollections of a recent trip to Vietnam

Army Life...no really Story
A flash story of training how to clear houses during Basic Training

The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968, I arrived and found myself nearly alone in Hitler's huge S.S. headquarters compound in Nuremburg Germany. Now occupied by U.S. forces they had saddled up their tanks to head for the border to guard against an invasion by the Russian tank army. A draftee, a mere private, I bunked in a large empty building formerly occupied by S.S. commandos. But I had female company.

Comely and perfectly formed Cotta Antullius, third son of an armaments fabricator for the Roman gladiator school in the hedonist reign of Emperor Caligula, is in training in various possible careers of serving men when a visit to the gladiator waiting cells under the colosseum stands accelerates his experience and family misfortune forces him to be sold into slavery to an old general using him for his own ambitions.

A story in the Dark Tales Universe
A tale created after nilsbabcock73 made a challenge to create a story, based only on the title given. So this is my story based on the title "Little Sister's Surprise". Some codes may or may not be omitted.

Army Life...no really Story
Another of my true life Army stories, this one from my first deployment on a gate guard shift. Names have not been given in order to spare the idiot shame (plus I probably couldn't spell his name anyway)