—I can make Skell laugh if I really have to, but I have to take off one of his boots first.

—That went by just a little fast, Torl.

—It’s terribly hard to tickle the bottom of a man’s foot when he’s wearing boots, commander.

I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.

How could tickling, even though it causes laughter, be at the same time such a vicious form of torture?

Sitting on the edge of my bed, I thought it through.

I came to the conclusion, at last, that it was like this: Tickling and learning were much the same thing. When you tickle yourself—ecstasy; but when anyone else tickles you—agony.

The Army certainly has known since fall of last year, fall of 2005, and perhaps as early as June of 2004 that there were chemical weapons being discovered at Schofield.

This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.

Execution of this contract bridges the way to an additional 96 remanufactured AH-64Ds for the U.S. Army and to Block III Apache Longbow helicopter production, ... This is a true team effort and a key Apache milestone achievement.