My room's thorough cleaning has been a long time coming.  And for a brief 30 min stint, it got just that...before my thin excuse for motivation ran  dry.  But with my false motivation, I did manage to clean out my desk and set up my new printer.  In that process I cleared out my desk (which was covered in a bed of assorted USC, USAA, motorcycle ( Read more... )

Wow.  Just watched the video that Tiff posted up on facebook of AX of '05 and it sure opened a floodgate of memories from yesteryear.  It's incredible thinking that the fottage is from 5 years ago...it sure feels like a different lifetime.  I was such a different person back then living a totally different life.  My ideals, ambitions, views, as ( Read more... )

I've recently met my career goal for the Marine Corps of getting promoted to Sgt. before my 6 year mark.  It would seem like I've gotten everything that I had hoped for out of my time in the Corps and I must say that I'm very satisfied with my resume with them as I separate from the military: 2 deployments to combat zones (one fake one real, lol), ( Read more... )

I'm awesome, like a hot dog

Fear.  Most days i don't feel it.  I'm not saying this to sound heroic or brave.  If anything, the lack of the feeling makes me nervous.

But I do feel it on some days and some times it sends an overpowering paralyzing sensation coursing through my body.  Death, i do not fear specifically.  It happens to us all.  It is the process of dying that i ( Read more... )

Hey Marines, I have something to tell you guys.  You know how when you hear rumors they're usually inconsistent?  Well, we've been hearing the same rumors over and over so there must be some legitimacy to what I'm hearing.  So here's the truth; Marines are dying out there.  The enemy has found a way to penetrate the armor on our trucks and they are ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here on the beach, watching the ebbing tide as the storm building above shades the Earth of Heaven's light.  I can see the tide receding further and further into the sea, revealing more beach than normal.  I know full well this is the sign of a impending Tsunami.  Looking around, no one seems to notice.  At the horizon, the ocean seems ( Read more... )

Lying in bed waiting for unconscious bliss to settle in, I am filled with thoughts about the future and its innumerable uncertainties.  It was in this pool of thought that a brief moment  of vulnerability overwhelmed me like a wave brought about by the tide of thoughts about deploying.

I'm really going to Afghanistan. 

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So it seems like the time has come to elaborate on my last post.  In case any of you cared enough to think about the post and had considered it as a metaphor for something about to happen, I'd like to let you know you're half right ( Read more... )