Challenge to myself (and others): answer with only one word. No explanations or elaborations ( Read more... )

Today was a blast! 2nd PLT went out today to do some super high-speed small-unit-tactics training. We started out with a ruck through the woods bright and early in the morning. Strangely, though we went up and down hills, over and through brush, it was really fun. We got to our objective, and SSG V had a quick class on movement techniques. We ( Read more... )

So here's what I did from July 3 to 18 Aug. The year was 2007. The United States Army had decided that officers from West Point were lagging behind the other commissioning sources in knowing what the real world is like, so they decided to implement a means to level the playing field, and get all officers up to speed! Actually, it had more to do ( Read more... )

A caveat to any potential Officer Candidates reading this: This chronicles my experience 16 Mar 2007 to 21 Jun 2007 with Delta Company. The course has changed. The recruiting climate of the Army has changed. The command climate and cadre have changed. Your experience may be drastically different from what I went through, as I saw it ( Read more... )

Rapid update on what I've done in the last.... oh.... year and a half in bullet form before I go to bed. Highlights! Lowlights! Other! Ready, steady, GO ( Read more... )

Wow, that's got a bit more of a gap in it than the last one. :) Updates: Not really using this anymore. Maybe I should again. Though, it's probably completely private now since everyone who used to look at it probably realized it wasn't being updated and stopped looking long ago. Mmmmmm.... introspective goodness with minor possibility of ( Read more... )

I got this off of chaithai16's journal, and thought I'd post what everyone already knows. I am the nerd to beat all nerds! Well, not ALL nerds, technically speaking. That, in and of itself, adds to the nerdiness. Bwah ha ha! I SO win. :P



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Yeah...BUDDY! I haven't updated this in 15 weeks, so sayeth the journal, and the journal knows all. Well, all that I tell it. Anywho, I've lots to say, but I have a 0430 formation tomorrow morning so....yeah, not gonna update this much. But I have internet in my room now, and I'm at Fort Leonard Wood (aka Lost in the Woods) where there's not ( Read more... )

And I'm now in Senior Phase of OCS. Wow, don't really have time to update this much, but I'm still alive, and doing ok. More...some other time! :)

Is this the third year of my journal? I don't remember so much. Or at all. Anyway, happy new year. Leaving for BCT in....6 days! Woo hoo! :)