Just thought I'd share this with everyone. I'm almost ready to leave. It's probably a bad idea to send any further packages. It's probably also a very good idea to ask me for anything you want from Afghanistan now. Send me an email.

That's right. Time's short. But I'm sure the DA will have plenty of other deployments for the 10th coming ( Read more... )

I can't help but feel a weird, smirking detachment from current events in the US. We get our dose of news out here. I mean, let's look over the recent months ( Read more... )

This NASCAR flag was flown in the face of the enemy in Afghanistan, against Anti-Coalition Forces made up of Al-Qaeda members and former Taliban.

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I realized I haven't updated this in a long, long time. Then I realized that there really is very little worth reporting here. The only exception is that I would like to say that it looks as if we'll definately be out of here by sometime in April. Supposedly, as we were the first to rotate in, we'll be the first to rotate out from the 10th. I ( Read more... )

Why Biology Classes Matter

I'm not sure I could make up things this strange.

Not much change here. Still waiting on the call to go handle the locals. It seems the senior medic decided to break in his new guy by making him handle all the stressful tough jobs for a while.

Seems they need someone competent with dealing with lots of trauma over near the gates. That's where we get everyone wounded from the countryside. I have more to do! Not that I'm excited about people getting hurt, mind you, only about having a larger role here ( Read more... )

Hey C, ya want sloppy seconds?I've nothing really worth discussing, but figured I might as well make people laugh (and post so they know I'm alive). I remember when we first got to AIT, before we went nuts. We still had that Basic Training Wrath-of-God attitude toward our Drill Sergeants, so we were on our best behavior waiting for classes to ( Read more... )

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
-JS Mill

I always liked Mill, even though I think he's wrong. Not in the above quote, but in his thesis in On LibertyThe mail finally got here. Thank you. I'll send the children' ( Read more... )

Steel splash!I ran into some old friends of mine from the field artillery boys yesterday. They taught me a few things on their end I thought would be worth knowing. One of these poor suckers got sent here with one set of DCUs, no other clothing, and then got stuck on a 10 day stay. So of course we know what that means: wash your clothes by ( Read more... )

Apparently the hospital commander has ordered that there shall be no auxillary help in the hospital. So I now need a new job before I die of boredom.