Normally I have no use for these competition style shows, but ...

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Just from this clip alone I suspect there are going to be several moments of comedy gold from Rudy just being his relentlessly optimistic self. I so hope he brought his espresso pot!

K-Box linked this.

5 Myths about Military you believe thanks to movies.

The noble Sgt's thoughts on life and the White Man.

Hilarious and very, very uncensored.

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I've fumbled the punt the last 2 months, but here goes ...

Isaiah Mustafa
Not only is he good smelling (like Old Spice) and hot like fire, but his voice is so sexy, I'd listen to him read the phone book.

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First off, Marina, Major Conflict is much more the sort of book you'd wish Nate Fick had written. McGowan wanted to be a soldier ever since he was a little boy (possibly even a greater romantic than Fick), and he still loves the Army, and is incredibly proud of his service, but he's also furious about the homophobia and the sexism he saw during ( Read more... )

Valorfarie has a lovely post of ASkars Love. Go ye and be merry.

One of the things I think I most enjoy about OBA is Fick's very dry, and often self-deprecating sense of humor.

[A bunch of reporters are pestering Fick and Gunny Wynn as they're in line at Camp Matilda to get chow.]

He held his tape recorder high, like an offering. "C'mon, what unit are you with? Hometown? Name? Anything? I'm so excited to be ( Read more... )

Brad Colbert is first mentioned on pg 161.

On the last day of January 2003, the orders to deploy to Iraq come. They are supposed to be packed and ready to go by 10pm. At 2am busses come and pick them up and take them to March AFB

We lined up our bags for loading aboard the Air Force C-5 Galaxy cargo plane that would be carrying us to the Middle ( Read more... )

So, after racing back onto the USS Dubuque, Nate Fick ends up deployed in Pakistan/Afghanistan and it's miserable and fucking cold and he wears the same set of clothes for 40 days out in the field and gets his first shower in 40 days when he's (and the rest of his squad) are brought back to the well deck and stripped and hosed off and deloused ( Read more... )

When he writes of his first deployment, Fick spends surprisingly little time talking about how cramped and noisy life is on a ship at sea. (And if you want a hint of that, go watch the PBS series Carrier) He does write about meeting Rudy Reyes and the workout classes he'd lead on deck, and how, after a time, not even the Colonel called him "Sgt. ( Read more... )