I woke up this morning freezing. I was gonna get my sleeping bag out but it was only 15 minutes until I had to wake up. I'm not a morning person at all no matter how much sleep I get. Not much to write about today. I stayed in the plant again taking readings every hour again. I got refreshed on how to parallel generators. We do that to take ( Read more... )

September 11th. The 4th anniversary of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks. Has it ben 4 years? It's hard to believe! That's part of the reason I'm here in Iraq, to help make Iraq a more difficult place for terrorists to thrive. I am supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom and indirectly supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. For the record, ( Read more... )

I woke up to check our flight status at 0200 and 0500 as instructed. Each time yielded nothing but a message that said to keep checking periodically. So I went back to sleep and set my alarm for 0700 to catch chow. When my alarm went off, I elected sleep over food. I woke up around 10 and spent the morning reading and playing computer games. ( Read more... )

We landed in Kuwait at around 0130. It was a breezy cool night. I was anxious to see my surroundings in the daylight. I wanted to see the desert that I've heard and read so much about over the last 5 years. We waited at the airport for about 3 hours while they loaded everyone's baggage into 2 big tractor trailers and sorted us onto our ( Read more... )

Today is the big day. The day I leave for my very first deployment. I have been in the Air Force for 5 years, I am a staff sergeant and this is the first time I've been deployed. I barely have any experience in the desert. not to mention that my first deployment is to Iraq. Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq. To tell you the truth, I'm really not that ( Read more... )

Hey all, I'm still alive for those that still read this. I haven't updated in a long time. My computer has been shit since I got to Germany. I've been here for about 6 months now. It's pretty cool. Not that bad. Way better than Altus AFB, OK. Remember the posts I've put about that place? I'm going to Iraq at the end of this month. It will be ( Read more... )

Well, I thought that Sunday was the worst day of my life. It turns out that it was the second worst day of my life. Wednesday November 10th 2004, the day I said my final good byes to my mother was the worst day of my life. It was the most painful day of my life. I cried sunday when I found out that cancer had finally won the battle but I cried ( Read more... )

Everything is meaningless. Nothing in life matters. NOTHING! Why does shit happen? Who knows? I don't. Shit happens, there's nothing you can do about it so get over it. Right? Right. What can you do about it? Not a God Damned thing! I'm angry, I'm sad, I'm a mix of emotions right now. What the hell are you supposed to feel when your ( Read more... )

Let's see... what's happened since my last update? Thursday, I went to a storm spotter training class. It was very interesting. I now know what exactly to look for in severe weather situations and what to report. I want to study weather. I find it fascinating. On Saturday, I got to test out what I learned. Severe weather was threatening the ( Read more... )

It's been nearly 6 months since my last update. I started doing college for a little bit and then was on leave in New England. That was great! I'm taking a break from college because I'm in my deployment cycle. I'm not going anywhere but I always have to be ready. Also, I'm studying for my promotion test. I test for staff sergeant in May. We ( Read more... )