I've just completed the Marine Corps Institutes' Staff NonCommissioned Officer Career Distance Education Program Series 8100 (and my Government homework). In this six volume series of workbooks, I found an almost overwhelming amount of information with regard to expectations of new Staff NCOs. Once I had put the final book down, words like " ( Read more... )

I just read an article written by Alan Stafford from PC World under Reviews & Rankings entitled "$200 Linux Desktop Systems Are No Bargain". At first I didn't understand why the title of an article about new Linux systems should sound so disdainful, especially given that the latest offerings bundled with Linux have actually had so much success and ( Read more... )

We are downstream from the axis of a minor shortwave trough ( Read more... )

Sensitivity. Sorrow. Lamentation. Woe. Grief. Loneliness. Absence. Tears ( Read more... )

I think this makes almost six weeks since I left home and traveled to Ireland, Budapest, Kuwait, and now Iraq -Camp Korean Village in fact, or just KV for short. What kind of place is it? Well it's the kind of place inhabited by all sorts of riff-raff and rubish of society that's trying to make more of their lives than what they started with. Or ( Read more... )

At least that's what they call it, so when the subject of fine granulated dust comes around that's what I call it -moondust. This stuff is annoying as hell. It picks up whenever the winds blow from the west, and that's pretty much any part of the western horizon circle sw, w, nw whatever. When that happens while I'm the forecaster on duty, I've ( Read more... )

Well, since this will mark a consistent use of LJ after a three year hiatus, I'll mark the occasion with the reason for my use of this site. As of the 26th of March I was, for the second time, deployed to the Al Anbar province of Iraq. What I have to say will depend on exactly what is happening, how I'm feeling of couse, and the nature of my ( Read more... )

I've not posted anything is so long that this was almost just a check and see if it's still working visit to LJ ( Read more... )

I stayed in all day today. It had been a good day too, but it's Sunday so I did have to go out for a haircut. I closed the door behind me and turned left toward Second. How long had it been waiting there for me? Was it meant for me because it tore through my body and sered my mind almost in an instant -Dread, encapsulation, and mourning had ( Read more... )

Insultingly Stupid Movie Character Development/Plot Progression(assassination)
Synopsis: I'm not ( Read more... )