RL Dexter

I want to describe how the human body is engineered and how first responders should look at their bodies as an engineered machine and how overloading certain circuits can shut the entire machine down. I recently watched a documentary on Netflix called Cosmic Time Machine which talks about the deployment of the James Webb Hubble Space Telescope but specifically talks about Single Points of Failure (SPOF’s). In engineering, a SPOF is a fatal flaw, if one component stops, the entire system...

In 2005 I had returned from a tour in Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. I was a platoon leader and patrolled the city of Ramadi every day for a year. My platoon engaged in close combat regularly. When I returned home, I worked to integrate myself back into my family I had been away from for one and a half years. At the same time, I went back to working midnights as a police officer. I did what most soldiers and officers do and consumed way too much alcohol to numb my problems. ...