So today I took my CDI test's for the second time in my Marine Corps career. I will take responsibility for my guys, the work they do. That I will ensure that the work done on my birds is done correctly and that we wont needlessly endanger lives. However this time I'm uneasy about it. There is still a lot about this bird that I don't know. ( Read more... )

It's strange how easy it is to get in to a routine, how people in general take comfort in that routine. I wake up at the same time everyday walk over to the head and see the exact same guy every day brushing his teeth in the exact same sink, I walk over to the shower it's the exact same guy as the day before and for the last five days shaving his ( Read more... )

There's nothing like waking up in the morning opening the door of your can to brush your teeth with bottle water and inhaling sand. You take a breath in and you can taste Iraq. At night you look at the lights and it looks like mist but instead its dust and sand. We had a mild sand storm/dust storm the last two days and it is not fun my friends ( Read more... )

I am now in Al Asad and I'll be damned if I didn't have 2 beers my first night for the super bowl, the chow is good and we've got plenty of bottle water.  I lucked out with a can to myself and I started taping half nekkid women all over the walls.  Not much else to say it really aint all that bad.

Well after stopping in Canada, Iceland and Germany I am now in Kuwait. Im packing heat, pissed off at the army and enjoying the good chow. I slept an incredible amount and my internal clock is beyond messed up. It wont be to much longer before I hop on a bird bound for Al Asad however I'll probably be stuck here for a day or two sleeping in a ( Read more... )

Well you wouldn't believe how many different dates I've heard about flying out but I think they've finally got it worked out. My squadron has been continuously deployed for sense 2006 and you think they would have it figured out but seems that each deployment is the first and well the S shops have dropped the ball more times when we can count. ( Read more... )

I looked at a message I wrote on myspace last night and wow I was really really drunk, I am unsure as to how I woke up on time for work. I do believe I was at work way to long this morning about an hour or so. I may have still been drunk when I showed up, it's a possibility. Good thing SSgt is sending all the OIF deployers home as soon as he can ( Read more... )

Well rubber neckers today marks the first time in probably 16 years that I've seen snow that actually sticks to the grown, iced over rivers were also seen this pass weekend. We've got a touch of a winter storm going on in North Carolina and my buddy and I had the pleasure of driving through it to get back from Virgina. This weekend is the last ( Read more... )

They told me the date today for when I'll be leaving, it's soon folks little sooner then I thought. And another interesting bit is that I might be the last of my squadron in Iraq and when we pull out we won't be heading for home we'll be heading to Afghanistan to finish up our deployment. Afghan is the big show friends, it's the wild west out ( Read more... )

Saying good bye to the old man was well awkward. How the rolls have changed, I remember when I was six saying good bye to him back in 1990 when he was leaving to go out to the desert now 18 years later he's saying good bye to me as I'm leaving home and will be heading out to the desert in a month or so. It's weird how life works like that, and it ( Read more... )