Promotion board was a success - I'll be a Sergeant in one month.

So my soldier of the quarter competition starts in less than an hour and goes on until Thursday. I didn't want to do this thing to begin with, and now I am stressed out like crazy because I have to do it. Ugh. Tomorrow is the performance testing... PT test, M16 qualification, warrior tasks evaluation, and land navigation eval..... it's going to be ( Read more... )

Do you like fishsticks?

Spoke with the branch manager about my re-enlisting for Germany. Apparently the only slots available for my MOS/rank are with 10th SF Group. He's all like, "You'll need to either be airborne qualified or sign a statement saying you're willing to go to airborne... would that be a problem ( Read more... )

My deployment is officially approved, though the date has changed slightly. For OPSEC reasons I can't say when I'm going exactly... but I will arrange to go to New Jersey before I do, at least for a couple of days (I will be back and forth across the country for training apparently, so time off may be scarce). I'll inform anyone who wants to know ( Read more... )

So my deployment release got kicked back again. The commander assures me it's going to go through, but jesus this is annoying. I just want to get boots on the ground and do my damn job. I hate being the guy sitting back in the states. Granted I am involved in a live mission here, but it's not the same.

Oh well, we'll have to wait and see.

Watchmen was pretty sweet, it stuck really close to the comic. I don't really have any complaints, actually. It's right up there with Dark Knight for me, though I will say that I think the movie would be even better for anyone who has read the comic, since you could notice the extreme amount of attention given to the little details.

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So how'd the Eagles game go?

Christmas came and went. I saw the Spirit, it was alright. Went to work for a bit. It wasn't alright. I ate ramen noodles, they were delicious. And I slept. I thought to myself, "This should be depressing," but it really wasn't. I got caught up on some of my promotion packet crap and what have you so it ended up being productive. Also, no one was ( Read more... )

Ironically enough it is now 0001 on Christmas Eve, totally wasn't intentional ( Read more... )