Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Moving down south.

Well, as most of you already know, I am taking the semester off due to circumstances beyond my control. I am heading down to Louisiana for 3 months for hurricane relief operations. When I get back in April, I have another month then I am back off to train in Louisiana's Fort Polk. I will still be updating this thing when I am down there so make sure you check back for updates.

On that note, I am going to get a little serious. Over the past years, I have been on active duty for the majority. Some of you ask: Why do you do it? Well, I would have to say that it is a combination of things. At first, the army was just some big adventure. I got to travel to places I had never been and those places most people probably don't get to go. I was part of something huge; something bigger than anything I could ever imagine. When guys come up to me and say "man I wish I joined back in the day", I honestly feel sorry for them. Yeah, you know what, the army sucks sometimes and its not a cake walk by any means. In Iraq, when I strapped on that Kevlar Helmet, got up in the gunner's turret and sat behind that Mk19; I was part of history. Part of history like the guys who stormed the beaches on D-Day, like the guys who froze at Valley Forge during the Revolution and just the same as all my ancestors who took up arms.

Since then, that feeling has not gone away but somewhat morphed into something else. Now that I am a leader, I force myself to have standards above the rest. I strive to learn more and more and more about my job. I want to be an effective leader and my sense of duty is greater now than ever before.

OK I will stop.
So, how bout that Johnny Damon? What a fucker eh?

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Just one more thing...

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