I am the co-host and creator of "The Science Fiction Show" podcast with my good friends Keith Houin and Michael Wistock. Join us each Friday for a look at all things Sci-Fi in the world of pop culture, TV, film and more. How? Easy! 
Battlespace Anthology
My Science Fiction Show crew and I have started reading submissions for "Battlespace." Goal is to have them read and decided upon by April 6. Thanks to everyone who submitted.Short Story Acceptance
My short story, "The Lives Magda Made," was accepted into the horror anthology, "No Rest for the Wicked" from Rainstorm Press. The book is due out in May 2012.Humor Columns
Defusing the Enemy
(Note: This article appeared in Air Force News Service and Airman magazine in Fall 2005.) by Jason Tudor The thumbtacks number in the hundreds. Blue. Yellow. Red. Green. White. They cover a large white map of Baghdad’s southwest side like some creation Picasso might have made on a child’s Lite-Brite toy. Red tacks are the favorite for dirty, worn thumbs that must press them into the map. Each time a member of the Air Force explosive ordnance disposal team at …
Band of Gypsies Rolls Along
(Originally published in Airman magazine in June 2002) In another time, they’d creak along huddled in hundreds of bulky wooden wagons filled with their effects. Through thick brown mud, over huge sand dunes and huddled for warmth in the cold, the wheels of this band of gypsies would roll along. The words from a traditional gypsy song might best sum up their lives: And their captain was a handsome man He had a sword and what looked like a plan …
Posted in Airman Magazine Features
Tagged Air Control, Air Force, AWACS, Cold War, E-3, E-8, F-15 Eagle, Iceland, JSTARS, Keflavik, Loki, NATO, NORAD, radar, Soviet Bear, USAF
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Seek, Attack, Destroy
(Originally published July 2002) The quote is stuck to a sheet of steel the size of a TV tray. Few people notice the sign, now on the floor of the squadron’s break room, adorned with its cartoonish-looking Soviet mobile rocket launcher and large, all-capital block letters. But the quote, a relic of the Cold War, is priceless. “A Wild Weasel provides a Warsaw Pact SAM operator the maximum opportunity to give his life for his country.†Such is the mentality …
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Second Wind
(Originally published August 2002) Every time someone even says the word “closure†around here, someone else giggles. Maybe it’s denial. Maybe the date scratched on everyone’s desk calendars is erased more than an answer on an enlisted promotion test. Or it could be that this place may simply never close. Maybe. With cargo planes sitting on the runway, 1,100 people living in contingency dorms and facilities reopening to support Operation Enduring Freedom, Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, is gaining a second …
Storm Watch
(Originally published October 2002 by Airman magazine) Forget the mission. Everyone talks about Iceland’s weather. It’s like some Shakespearean character inspiring defiance, tragedy and romance in one sitting. Winds rage across the Reykjanes peninsula’s black pumice-crusted skin providing commercial airline passengers landing there the rush of a first-time bungee jump. Cold’s teeth clamp down on cheeks, eyes, noses and lips. Thick snow drifts blow through like the playwright’s fictional armies storming a castle, eager to claim victory on just one …
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