07/16/2023
Since retiring from 32 years of outfitting and guiding hunts for bears and Mt. Goats near Haines, Ak, I recently completed and self-published my memoir, OUR JOURNEYS. For those new to this site and my past, please scroll through some of the older posts on this page. If you are interested in reading about twice defending against three simultaneously attacking brown bears and sleeping inside a valley-floor glacier ice cave when trapping the world's largest wolverines, first Google my name and then storiesofthenorth.com. The website intro will also inform you of my time as a 20-year-old Air Force assistant Crew Chief of an F-4 Phantom Fighter/Bomber. It was armed with a 340-kiloton nuke on a 5-minute alert to vaporize portions of Red China from our covert Quick Response Alert site at Tainan Air Base, Taiwan, 1970. In all honesty, we nearly accidentally sent two of those deadly warbirds on what would have been the world's first unprovoked and most catastrophic nuclear attack in history. After I stopped the launch in the final second, the Air Force took measures to protect the officers that caused the incident, including scrubbing my involvement and presence. The only record is my memoir, published solely to illuminate one of the darkest days in modern military history. Because of how things are with China, Russia, and North Korea, the world must know how close we came to a nuclear holocaust in 1970. Please assist in spreading the word before it happens again when there might not be anyone willing to go against protocol when an obvious mistake is made by those in charge of Planet Earth's fate.
