I have $100,000 worth of radio equipment on my bed right now ( Read more... )

The Preamble ( Read more... )

I had guard duty, some community service work and a lot of homework to do today. A Saturday well spent ( Read more... )

I am back from summer training and am alive. I got a promotion to Corporal. So it is Corporal Rose now. I also have plebes to watch over and mentor. I hope to provide them with some good leadership; there are too many bad examples out there ( Read more... )

I am leaving for Cadet Field Training soon. I will have no computer or phone for the rest of the summer but you can still mail me (which I will always be very grateful for) at:

Cadet Private First Class Robert Rose
P.O. Box 3508
United States Military Academy
West Point, New York 10997 - 3508

Have a wonderful summer.

This Journal now belongs to Private First Class Robert Rose, yes I was promoted! Now I am no longer the a plebeian swine. Upperclassmen now talk to me as if I am a person, they even told me their first names. I can "fall out" when i walk around now. I can have some sociability in my life ( Read more... )

Two West Pointers died in Iraq together. They were class of 1998 ( Read more... )

Here is a nice little update.

27 Days until my promotion and I will now longer be a apart of the plebeian salt of the Earth.

So here will be a little photo montage of the last few days.

( Sandhurst and the Scottish and Jewish Invasions )

Well here will be the big summary of the last month or so...

( Spring Leave and D.C. )

Bloody hell, my roommate goes so far as to buy (downloading music for fee is considered stealing) music on iTunes (music that he himself hates) just to start blasting as soon as I enter the room. This song grates against the mind, however it does sound kind of like the music from an old school underwater Mario level...(He is using it as leverage ( Read more... )