RIP Darren Tate

A friend of mine at FOB Alamo has died recently.  He was a young sailor nearing the end of his tour.  I remember talking to him the night before he was taken from our FOB to a medical facility.  He said he wasn’t really feeling good; something fairly common in such unclean conditions.  The next [...]

If you’re wondering…

what its like here, it seems they made a movie about it:
Life as a Deployed Soldier

Back at The Alamo!

Well, I finally made it back to my Forward Operating Base (FOB), yay!  There is nothing worse than being stuck while travelling in the military.  For my 15 day leave, I was gone 27 days, which I think is a FOB record.   Between being stuck in Kuwait, Bagram and Atlanta, I was more than ready [...]

On my way back now

Leave was great.  It was exactly what I needed.  I am now sitting in the airport terminal waiting to head back.  It is a much different feeling than when I left the first time.  I’m almost excited to get back and start working again so the time will go faster and I can come home [...]

Afghan Village of Sheenza Wer Receives Medical Aid

http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=31747
Here is another article that turned up in my Google Alerts hopper.  This one is also written by Guy Volb, and its about a Humanitarian Assistance (HA) mission that my unit completed while I was home on leave.  I was there for the planning of it but didn’t get to go on this one.
Anyways, great [...]

Made it

I finally got in on Monday.  The good news is I will get an extra day of leave because I had to stay in Atlanta one night.  I’m having a great time and will try to take pictures to share.  If anyone in the area wants to stop by to say hi, I will be [...]

Lauren – Check your email!

Honey,
I haven’t been able to make contact with you from here yet.  I dont think Yahoo Messenger is working.  I’ve emailed you all my flight information, but I don’t know when you will check it next.  I will try to find a working phone around here, but please check your email soon!

How To – Google Alerts

While working at CDW last year, I started using google alerts to keep up to speed on what was happening with my clients’ businesses.  Since then I have found many uses for this powerful tool.  Its not one of google’s most popular or well known features, so I thought I would share this with those [...]

Anxious, bored and fidgity

So I’m leaving in the morning to start the trek back to the States for R&R.  I’m all done with work for the day, my bags are packed, paperwork is done and I’m ready to go.  I know its going to be a long moring adventure home (and even more so coming back) so I [...]

New header

As a dabbler of photoshop, I had been meaning to create a customer header for this site basically since I launched it, and only just now got around to it.  I’m not extremely happy with it, so I’ll probably be changing it again soon.
If anyone likes to tinker with PS, feel free to make one [...]