To the very clever driver who decided to lecture me about where I *should* be riding my bike ( Read more... )

This afternoon, after dropping our stuff off at the hotel, we headed to Space Coast Stadium to watch the Tigers play the Nationals (for those who care and don't already know, our home-town Nationals won 8-1, on the strength of an Ian Desmond 2-run homer in the 3rd ( Read more... )

Since the last update, Stephane was reassigned to the headquarters in Laayoune, which made me G-3 about a month and a half earlier than I expected. Since he left on Tuesday, I've been scrambling to make sure I get everything done that I need to do, and learn all the things he didn't have a chance to teach me. It's a tough job, but it has its ( Read more... )

The second week of class was even more fun and interesting than the first. We learned how to probe our way out of a minefield if we wind up in one by mistake, emergency medical procedures, including how to give IVs, and got to do some off-road driving during the practical exam (which also included probing our way out of a minefield, and giving an ( Read more... )

Friday's class was a blast. After spending the morning driving an Explorer on the track, doing slaloms & braking exercises and other fun high-speed maneuvers, I got to practice crashing through roadblocks in the afternoon. I got to blast through three of them. One of the other guys in the class managed to roll an Explorer ( Read more... )

So here I am at lovely Fort Bragg, North Carolina, going through the Peace Keeping Operations course. They're presenting a lot of useful information, and are keeping things interesting, even in the areas of instruction I'm qualified to teach (like the anti-terrorism stuff, for which they're using the same Powerpoint slides that I use to teach from ( Read more... )