You know what erks me sometimes is when I've had a bird that's been down for a while and will be down for longer and then I get a random hour based inspection. Those engines haven't been run in forever the thing is not just sitting there getting hours put on it. Then it's a rush to get it done. Control is freaking out about this inspection and ( Read more... )

Well I had my SSgt send an email back to the rear trying to get one of the MSgt's to email the monitor about getting me orders to Fort Worth. I doubt it will happen though but what's the worse that can happen I stay in Cherry Point. If I cant get there by the end of next year I'll probably put in for orders back to Okinawa. As much as I hated it ( Read more... )

I am now a Quarter of a Century old. I have spend my birth day in 3 different countries so far and wonder where I'll be for the next one, willing to make a gamble on the US probably getting ready to go to Afghanistan. We've got a tentative date for our departure. It'll be nice when our replacements get here then we can drop our packs, not quite ( Read more... )

There's a reason why they give us so many holidays and 30 days of paid vacation a year. It's because I can not think of a single job in the civilian world that makes you work 90 to 100 hours a week for 6 months straight. We've got a month and a half left on this deployment and you can tell how being around each other every waking moment is just ( Read more... )

I work with idiots. One of my guys decided it was a good idea to beat on a cast aluminum housing with a steel ball peen hammer to install it on a motor. I don't know if y'all know this or not but cast metal is not very dense, it's soft, and steel hammers are very hard. So what do you get when you beat on a brand new filter housing with a steel ( Read more... )

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Remember when one is running from a pack of wild dingo's you do not need to out run the pack, you merely have to out run the person to the left or right of you ( Read more... )

Well I don't think I've mentioned it but I've grown a mustache out here. It's rather interesting to me for I have never really had facial hair. I've always been the clean cut type and for once I've got one. I kind of like it, and it got me to thinkin about my Grandpa Oakley. He always had a mustache when I came to the farm, it was longer and ( Read more... )

So today I have officially put my Kimber on order. I always liked Kimbers and would have like to have one but never thought I'd spend the money on one. However we've got a good deal going on ours. If I do stay out here another 6 months I'll probably buy another rifle, and possibly another pistol. A Remington 500 5r Mil Spec sounds nice, the ( Read more... )