Current news Jack would have picked up on if he were an eleven-year-old today.
Note I said "picked up on". I’m not actually suggesting he would read every word of these long articles. You know Jack, reading isn’t exactly his favorite thing. But his brat-radar would have honed in on this stuff.
Elmhurst resident discusses novel series about military brats
Suburban Life interviewed me, and published this article about Brat and the Kids of Warriors: Q&A: Elmhurst resident discusses novel series about military brats By MARY STROKA Michael Joseph Lyons, an Elmhurst resident of about 24 years, considers his hometown to be the U.S. Army. With a father who was a U.S. Army colonel, Lyons moved nine times, spent 12 years overseas and attended 11 schools by the time he graduated from Lyons Township High School in 1969. As an adult, he continued to serve in the U.S. Army, leaving with...
read moreExperience Matters interview with Author Michael Joseph Lyons
An interview with Drew Berquist, the show host of Experience Matters. “U.S. Army Veteran and author of “BRAT and the Kids of Warriors joins Michael Joseph Lyons joins the show to discuss his book.” If you would like to see more of the interview, or more episodes, simply paste CRTV.com/Experience into your social media accounts and a graphic will populate. That landing page will walk them through everything.
read moreRussia’s Military Drills Near NATO Border Raise Fears of Aggression
Russia’s Military Drills Near NATO Border Raise Fears of Aggression By MICHAEL R. GORDON and ERIC SCHMITT JULY 31, 2017 A Russian tank exercise CreditPool photo by Alexey Druginyn WASHINGTON — Russia is preparing to send as many as 100,000 troops to the eastern edge of NATO territory at the end of the summer, one of the biggest steps yet in the military buildup undertaken by President Vladimir V. Putin and an exercise in intimidation that recalls the most ominous days of the Cold War. The troops are conducting...
read moreRussia Bolsters Its Submarine Fleet, and Tensions With U.S. Rise
Navy brat Alex Knox was Jack’s good friend from their Atlantic Ocean crossing on the USS Upshur. And as one of Jack’s best sources of intel on submarines, Alex surely would have picked up on this article about the Russians building up their submarine fleet. Russia Bolsters Its Submarine Fleet, and Tensions With U.S. Rise New York Times By ERIC SCHMITT APRIL 20, 2016 Adm. Mark Ferguson, the United States Navy’s top commander in Europe, said last fall that the intensity of Russian submarine patrols had risen by...
read moreUS Military Evacuate Civilians And Dependants From Turkey
Jack McMasters’s brat radar would have activated. In fact every brat across the globe would have gotten the word all military brats were being evacuated from southern Turkey. Jack and Queenie lived too long with the threat of being evacuated from harms way, not to pick up on this article. US Military Evacuate Civilians And Dependants From Turkey Posted on March 30, 2016 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai in News, US The U.S. government have ordered an immediate evacuation of families of U.S. diplomats and military personnel in Turkey,...
read moreFrank E. Petersen, First Black General in Marines, Dies at 83
Surely Jack McMasters would have read about General Frank E. Peterson. He would have because Petersen became the first black general in the Marine corp. And because Lt. Col. Jones, the father of Jack’s good friend Jayla Jones, had a very similar career and life experience to General Peterson. Frank E. Petersen, First Black General in Marines, Dies at 83 By SAM ROBERTS AUG. 26,...
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...
read moreAn American Military Convoy in Europe Aims to Reassure Allies with Operation Dragoon Ride
In Brat: Kid’s of Warriors German kids come out to watch as U.S. Army tanks roll through their small villages in route to the Iron Curtain and Russian tanks pointed at them. Surely Jack McMasters would have picked up on this article about Polish kids coming out to see U.S. Army tanks rolling through their villages today, heading once again toward Russian tanks pointed at one of our allies. Go checkout Operation Dragoon Ride: An American Military Convoy in Europe Aims to Reassure Allies with Operation Dragoon Ride New York...
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