What I'm doing next.

Next year, I go from teaching math to teaching chemistry. Ungh.

Things not to repeat: spending half the night at a psych ward.

Finally got my commissioning photos back.


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1) ODS is done.

2) I'm sick as a dog, so I'll have to wait for the writeup.

3) This is what we had to "motivate" ourselves (in the "Thank goodness we're not those guys" sort of way) with. It's Officer Candidate School, which is the full-blow, twelve-week course. We had to watch them go through all that, and it's all pretty accurate (at least ( Read more... )

So, some of you may have noticed that I haven't been 'round (most of you probably haven't). For the past month, I've been stuck in Newport, RI. I have been a "guest" of Officer Training Command Newport, enjoying my second boot camp. Ok, it's been four weeks of suck. But that will be done with on Friday. Then it's back to being a human being. ( Read more... )

The remains of CAPT Speicher are on their way home, after eighteen years.

While it's frustrating not having known where he was, my appreciation does go out to the Bedouins who buried him, thus preventing the regime from desecrating his body.

I've told a few people, but I didn't widely publicize it before now, since I wasn't sure how it would turn out ( Read more... )

Someone want to write my personal statement for Officer Candidate School for me? I suck at writing these things.

Off to Newport News to get Mona's (Korean restaurant for those who don't know). Oh, and that whole interview to go into the Civil Engineering Corps. Physical down. Physical Readiness Test accomplished (almost a minute under time). Interview, application/board, and security questionnaire left to go.