This morning was infuriating, and it wasn't the first time this has happened. We were sleeping off having a late-night mission last night, and about 10 minutes before 8am we get woken up to help download the resupply truck. We were told it would arrive in 20 minutes. One hour and 10 minutes later, we're wondering WTF. Coupled with that, once it did ( Read more... )

Well, yesterday was kind of cool, in a way. We went on some cache search in this neighborhood based on a tip from some informant. We found no cache, but one of the names he gave us matched some guy we found hidden in a secret room through a crawl space in a house. My squad leader and I were the ones who found him and some other guy hiding in there ( Read more... )

I managed to catch Smackdown for the first time in well over a month earlier tonight as I ate supper. I already knew the results from reading WWE.com the other day, so I didn't stick around for the whole episode. I just have to wonder, though: why on earth does Batista even still perform? It's more and more obvious with each match of his I see that ( Read more... )

booga.

OK, so my squad is stuck on the 1am-4am and 1pm-4pm shifts of guard at our patrol base. Yet every day this week, we've been woken up at 7am or 8am for some stupid BS that could've waited until later or been handled by someone else. They then keep us busy off and on all day until well after supper. These leads to a bunch of tired and cranky soldiers ( Read more... )

OK, still no word on my leave dates yet. This is frustrating, but everyone should be somewhat used to this sort of thing from the Army by now. Well, if they're not accustomed to it, they should be at least expecting it ( Read more... )

The other day was absolutely retarded. It was our platoon's day to come back to the FOB for our refit cycle, but first, we had to conduct yet another pointless patrol. Then, after packing up all our stuff at the patrol base to head back to the FOB, we had to pack up what we had at the FOB too b/c we had to move tents. We're getting CHUs ( ( Read more... )

FOr those of you who read this, sorry for not posting in so long. It's just that there's really nothing exciting going on lately, or at least nothing I think is worth posting about. I'll try to bring everyone up to date on a variety of topics in this post ( Read more... )

And of course, the awesome day of finding out about my OCS slot had to be followed by one of the crappier days I've had in a while. I went to bed at a decent hour (9:00pm) the night that I found out about my OCS slot (Tuesday), and that's b/c I knew I had to be on TOC guard at 3am. I couldn't get to sleep. I was too well-rested from the night ( Read more... )

I have a slot for OCS! w00t ( Read more... )