Buck Clay

About the author

is an American. He served eleven years for God and Country with the illustrious Airborne Combat Engineers and dedicated four of those years traveling to wonderful faraway lands where he dug around in the dirt looking for bombs. After much soul searching, he decided to return to academia. There he obtained two additional university degrees, and he is now pursuing a fourth - because university is fun. Currently, he travels around quite a bit, and finds comfort on sunny desert mountaintops and seaside resorts where people try to kill him.

The Combat Veteran Counter-Public: By Politics and Pop-Culture

We congregate in the bars, or small social enclaves, and often alone, other times disconnected in the wildlands of nature or an urban setting . . . But most often at home where many spend their time in superfluous social-media bouts, some are soaked in alcohol, others intoxicated by the drug and/or narcotic of their […]

We Have No Obligation to Stay Alive: The Homeless Veteran Jungle (Pt.3)

The smells of the building struck in the basement, it was like walking into a cave made with iron as the stench of the damp concrete, mold, rust, and collected waste compacted into a narrow passage; now amplified by a grouping of homeless addicts and drunks who just spent their early morning hours under a bridge.

Indoctrination as a Homeless Veteran (Pt.2)

I simply said, “Prison rules are for life.” A joke in most circles, which unfortunately led to bedtimes stories passed about the room on the many and various places the men had been incarcerated.

A Misaligned, Misguided, and Misunderstood History: The Vietnam War

It is July 1965, and President Lyndon B. Johnson has made the decision to send troops into Vietnam. U.S. strategy in Vietnam demands a necessary escalation of force. American policy, stemming from Cold War doctrine, and events in Vietnam since at least 1954 have gone unchecked for too long. Yet, U.S. policy is destined to […]

Comic Myth: A Russian Flying Aircraft Carrier – Nick Fury Would Not Be Happy

Ekranoplans or Ground Effect Vehicles (GEVs), are an aircraft-hovercraft-ship hybrid that glides at low altitudes above the land or sea, which are capable of swiftly moving equipment and personnel. In 2015, plans for the A-050 Ekranoplan were allegedly underway at the Russian Federation, Central Hydrofoil Design Bureau (CHDB). A model of one of the A-050’s variants […]