Tomorrow makes week two of my exile here. Nearly $2000 banked in per diem. I've flown once, gone in to work for less than 12 hours total since then, and have spent 80% of my time lying on the beach soaking up sun. War is hell.

The Air Force has sent me on my first deployment. Last Saturday, I got recalled into the squadron at 1:00 PM where they briefed that we were being sent to Cyprus. From that point we had until Tuesday to pack up everything and get our asses here. Then when we started setting up Ops on Thursday, we were told we would have to be mission ready by ( Read more... )

1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

1. That's right, yeah. Got some old debts I gotta pay off with this stuff. Even if I didn't, you don't think I'd be fool enough to stick ( Read more... )

It's been almost a month since I've come back to England, but man, it's been a heck of a month. For those who don't know, my suitemate, whom I loaned my car to while I was home, was in an accident while driving back home after dropping me off at the train station. He was uninjured, but the passenger side door was obliterated. What was worse was ( Read more... )

Okay, after 2 near death experiences in 2 weeks, I've determined that I have to post them here ( Read more... )

Hey Everyone! Just wanted to announce that I have entered my Chris Redfield costume into the Cosplay Lab look a like contest. Please go to http://www.cosplaylab.com/contests/re.asp and vote for me. #37643 Thanks!

After talking with Leah and Mike yesterday, I realized that my stay here over the next 2 years was going to be painfully boring if I didn't do something about. I went out and found some of the gunners from my squadron were having a cookout and they invited me to join them. Well after eating a dinner that consisted almost entirely of meat products ( Read more... )

Now that I think about it, this is the first NDK I've missed in 8 years. From what I'm hearing it sounded like everyone had a blast, no matter how tired they were on Monday. I really wish I could have been there guys, and I plan on doing all I can to be there next year. It's just that it came at a really bad time with me just having shown up at my ( Read more... )

Okay, so I've been here a whole week now and the jet lag has finally worn off. Thank God! Right now I'm still going through in-processing and today I passed the test to get my UK drivers license. Mostly I've been getting alot of briefings on what Lakenheath has to offer and various nuances of British culture. I've learned that in the winter the sun ( Read more... )

Day 3 in England and I'm already missing home. England has been beautiful. The days get up to about 65-70 degrees with light breezes. Nights don't get much cooler. I've already made some great new friends here, but it still hurts having left so many of you. The biggest annoyance of all though is getting myself set up here. Back when I was home and ( Read more... )