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Showing posts with label Training for Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Training for Iraq. Show all posts
Sunday, March 15, 2015

Who Writes About Our Wars: Matt Jones

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28th CAB PAO at Camp Adder: Me, SGT Matt Jones, SFC Dale Shade, SGT Andy Mehler In September of 2009, I moved from the Echo Company...
Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Tough Mudder Pictures

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the event photographer posted some pictures form the event on line.  They found several mud-covered shots of me.  I am looking through their...
Sunday, May 2, 2010

Tough Mudder---I Finished!!!

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The most important news about Tough Mudder is that I finished.  It was a grueling event and laid out in a way that made it especially diffic...
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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Once a Warrior Always a Warrior

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Last week I got a book in the mail that I thought was just for real warriors. After all, most of my service was inside the wire on a very b...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Another Moral Lecture

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OK. I know I keep coming back to this topic, but today I was coaching one of the historians where I work about a public presentation she is...
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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Who Fought the War--And Is Back to Work

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Spc. Brad Powers just after he landed at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey. Spc. Brad Powers has a new job--already. While many members of...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Who Fights This War? Math Teacher and Drill Sergeant

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"I'd rather be digging a damn ditch than sitting on my ass in an air-conditioned office pushing FRAGOs (Fragmentary Orders)."...
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Sunday, August 30, 2009

My 500th Post--Meet Arab Singles??

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On August 22 last year I logged onto a site called geekadelphia that has a very favorable article about a new museum at the place where I w...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Thank You to Several (actually 22) People

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To Sarah Reisert for Propel Packets and razors (not to be used together) and for sending me a weird web site every Thursday. To 2LT West...
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Monday, July 20, 2009

More Chicken Shit

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I was going to let this subject go, but today I was talking with another soldier about the latest rule and remembered that as Chicken Shit t...
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Monday, June 1, 2009

Food, Fiber, Friends and CS Lewis

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Last week it became clear to me that the endless bounty of food at the DFAC (dining facility) was not providing me with enough fiber. So I ...
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Sunday, May 31, 2009

Tanks for the Memories

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Shortly after joining Echo Company I realized that part of my suffering in 2009 would simply be showing up in the motor pool. The glacial p...
Saturday, May 30, 2009

Sensing the Sun as I Ride

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Every time I ride I am aware of the sun. Whether the solar orb is low on a bright cold horizon in a Pennsylvania winter or the searing sphe...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Then and Now: Sergeant Sensitive

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Echo Company is a maintenance support unit based in Central Pennsylvania and composed to a large extent of soldiers who are also mechanics....
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Monday, May 25, 2009

Weather at Tallil Ali Air Base

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If you want to know what the temperature is here at Tallil, the only weather service I know of that actually lists Tallil is the Weather Und...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Marriage and Romance in the Army

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For most soldiers "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" is the best we can do for romance in the Army. A large group of us are in...
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Saturday, May 16, 2009

Doing Nothing, 7 Days a Week

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Those of you who read detective novels may have noticed a dog that isn't barking in my recent posts. It has been almost a month since I...
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Friday, May 15, 2009

What the PT Test Doesn't Measure

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I will be starting remedial PT (Physical Training) again next week for the soldiers who failed the last PT Test and need to get ready for th...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Achmed the Dead Terrorist

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Every place soldiers gather, whether official or unofficial meetings, if there is a video screen and few minutes, Achmed the Dead Terrorist ...
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Bike Line to the Rescue from 6000 Miles Away

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Some avid bicyclists really love bicycles. The love them as machines, love their design and engineering, love them as objects. Not me. In f...
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