Category Archives: Military

Props to Pop on Memorial Day

Posted on May 29, 2017 by Doc Searls

Thinking today, with great appreciation, about my father, Allen H. Searls, who served twice in the U.S. Army, first in the Coastal Artillery and again in the Signal Corps, during World War II. As I put it in the caption under that … Continue reading →

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Desert warfare training in live ghost towns, seen from the sky

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Doc Searls

I’ve been fascinated for years by what comes and goes at the Fort Irwin National Training Center— —in the Mojave Desert, amidst the dark and colorful Calico Mountains of California, situated in the forbidding nowhere that stretches between Barstow and … Continue reading →

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