actually, not so long. just once around the sun ( Read more... )

"Ship's Sinking
Is a Mystery
Nearly 1,500 People Aboard
Only About 260 Found Alive

Five Alabama Churches Burn
Cops Suspect Blazes Are Arson

Video: Tape Shows Man Robbing Little Girl"

sounds about right. the world is a beautiful place indeed.

I'm back. I hope.

the past 6 months have been..well...so many things. mind numbing, physically exhausting, mentally taxing, and mind blowingly visceral..all to give us the strength to endure what is to come. Just looking in my wallet I can see the evidence of the nonstop training I've been through these past few months..an IPHABD (Intermediate Passenger Helicopter ( Read more... )

ok. so that was a little longer than 2 weeks. I had hoped that my first post after my long absence would be one of substance and an eventual release of the multitude of things that have built up..but that will have to wait. Even though we are back in garrison, things have not eased up like I expected them to. Instead we spend numbing hours catching ( Read more... )

this is just a real quick update..to let everyone know I'm still alive. I've been at division schools at camp margarita for the past 2 weeks doing our main mortar training before we deploy in july. even though we will still do some training on our guns before we ship off..this was the only real focused training we'll get on em for a while. we had a ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here just kinda waiting for devon to get done on one of the other computers..so I guess I might as well write something..say something about this whole thing. umm...lets see. I guess I've never been able to come up with the words when it really matters. It seems that it only happens when I'm alone and kind of thinkin/talking with myself ( Read more... )

and yea..thats it. by the time this redstreetlight burns itself out the landing gear will be bracing for impact with the screaming burning rubber on my soles, and we will have touchdown, a breakthrough, there will be voices heard now seemingly familiar to millions but imprinted in a memory inscribed on the back of a card only I know the backstory ( Read more... )

ok.. so.. last week was a long week. lots of training. lots of flying in a chopper. firefights. a lot of "dead" marines everywhere. a lot of dragging carrying screaming confusion gunshots where are they? erratic desperate return fire my helmet wont sit right cant see the sights out of breath chest is burning and legs are giving in my squad ( Read more... )

another week at firebase gloria has gone by. I'll be back there again tomorrow to continue the TRAP course. Last week was mostly classes and then the SERE thing (which I found out stands for Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape). We started in 4 to 5 man teams, with about 12 teams or so. We all went out in full combat loads..helmets,flaks,M-16's. Some ( Read more... )