BRAT and the Kids of Warriors was honored to recieve the 2018 Beverly Hills Book Award for Young Adult Fiction.
Armored vehicle crossing a river
Photo from Ken Stalker. Given how heavy armored vehicles are, it may come as a surprise, but they are amphibious. Armored troops are trained to button them up and cross rivers.
read more4th Armored Division Tanker
Photo from Ken Stalker. Note the head set with boom mic for communicating with each other. Tanks are a very loud business.
read moreExhausted troops up near the Iron Curtain
Photo from Ken Stalker. Maneuvers involver roughing it. They were no weekend at the Holiday Inn. It was exhausting work.
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Live fire exercises up at Grafenwöhr
Photo from Ken Stalker. In Brat: Kids of Warriors Charlie explains to Jack about how their dads go up to Grafenwöhr on maneuvers to conduct Range tests and live fire exercises with their tanks. This is an actual photo of live fire up at Grafenwöhr.
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Creek running through the woods
Photo from Olundqu. The woods were enormous and there were several creeks running through them.
read moreRefueling a Luftwaffe Plane at the Fliegerhorst Kaserne
Photo from Bob Robinson Collection
read more5 Reasons War in Ukraine Should Worry You
Do you really think Jack wouldn’t have noticed that Russia begin war games the other day on the Ukrainian border, involving three Russian armies, 150,000 troops, 200 combat aircraft and helicopters, and more than 2,000 tanks, armored personnel carriers, and other pieces of “military hardware. Doesn’t look like things have changed that much since Jack was in Germany in the late 1050’s. Speaking of games, first person online are now trending. Even though LeoVegas went on somewhat of an acquisition spree at the end of 2017, it was a...
read moreOperation Saber Strike
Just like this content, 4th Armored Division used to prepare for a Russian invasion up on the Iron Curtain at Grafenwöhr, today’s U.S. Army is helping our Latvian allies be ready in the event of a Russian invasion. Surely Jack McMasters would have noticed this article about Operation Saber Strike: NATO Refocuses on Kremlin, Its Original Foe New York Times JUNE 23, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/world/europe/nato-returns-its-attention-to-an-old-foe-russia.html?emc=eta1 Credit Bryan Denton for The New...
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I am a military brat—and I say that with great pride.