So, I believe I am heading fool-heartedly into an instance of failure.  A moment of lack luster expectations and hopes.

It seems that what it really takes for things to change is for the current trend of dis-pleasurable to go into ridiculously asinine.  Then someone ("higher up") will finally try to change things.  Sadly, the way this unit goes, I may be in Iraq when this happens.  What might bring about this epiphany for them is finally realizing the people they ( Read more... )

I was told that the Army has been good to me.  So, am I to take this verbal suggestion (sic) and be thankful for the benefits that I have so reaped by enlisting?

This person followed his statement with examples of why it is so.  Everyone one of his bullet-point list of reasons, I countered with my  own personal experience...  Congrats, the Army has ( Read more... )

Is curiosity enough to put one's morals aside? 

Knowing that I am actually 2 months from coming back to Butte, I am forcing myself to not get excited.  When that time finally comes, it will be close to 18 months since I've been there.  So I am trying to not expect what things should be like when I get back ( Read more... )

I don't know, but I haven't been this pissed off in a while.  I just want to start to binge. 

It's amazing what one piece of information can do to the mentality of a group of people.  We all knew that we would be deploying sometime after Thanksgiving.  Some held what now amounts to an attempt at a dream bearing a nocturnal emission, only to be left disappointingly dry.  They held to what little hope that Democrats' self-righteous political ( Read more... )

The last 3 days, I got about an hour a sleep each day.    Day 1 left me spent.  Day 2 had a dream, and the 3rd and final day left a sober feeling ( Read more... )

So, I think that I found something in the sense of direction.  I do not know where I am going, or how I want to get there, but I got an understanding of the general path ( Read more... )

I want one of those stints where I go awake, sleepless for sometime, to the point where I get weird.  Maybe that will snap me out of my current funk.

My mind is clouded, I am distant and vacated...

I'm feeling damaged.