24
Aug
2014
It’s a typical mid-January Monday morning. The weekend ended too soon and the long grind of the work week looms ahead. You start your normal morning routine — making coffee, eating breakfast, taking a shower, dressing and warming up the car. The sun still hasn’t peeked over the distant horizon, and the temperature dropped well below freezing last night. Looks like a good time to try out that new winter jacket you got for Christmas.
While traveling the nation’s highways, how often do you see pieces of tire and tread belts along the sides of the road? So how do we keep our tires from becoming part of this road debris? The answer is vehicle tire maintenance.
People survive disasters by putting forth the effort to plan before they strike. Until resources can be mobilized and assembled in your area, you are on our own to care for your family and neighbors. Will you be prepared?
It was a little nerve-racking to ride in a car after returning from Iraq. As any combat veteran who consistently went outside the wire will tell you, every pothole or pile of trash on the side of the road was a threat. When you return home, it’s natural to think the same.
I have always taken safety seriously. However, after 18 years of sitting through the same safety classes over and over again, they tend to become mundane.
I went to the local airport looking to build fixed-wing time. The only requirement I placed on my instruction was it had to conform to the budget of a newly unemployed CW2 with a wife, two kids and no real savings. In other words, it had to be free.