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Sunday, April 19, 2015

No Answer--What Goes Up Must Come Down the Same Way

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No answer yet on whether I can re-enlist or not.  I thought that meant no answer at all.  The administrative NCO in my unit thinks the dec...
Friday, April 17, 2015

A Soldier When I'm 64? I am Supposed to Get the Answer Today

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Wednesday I talked to the Admin. Sergeant who submitted the paperwork for me to stay in the Army two more years.  She said we are supposed t...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Field Guide to Flying Death: Going Fu#king Ballistic

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Today on the bicycle ride, one of the faster riders I know was describing an even faster rider and how he won a race.  "He was f#cking ...
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Eight Years Ago Today I Started the Re-Enlistment Process

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Eight years ago today, on Maundy Thursday in 2007, I started the process of re-enlisting in the Army.  The last time I was in I looked li...
Monday, March 30, 2015

Keeping Up With Conspiracies in Space

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I just read the book Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin .  This tragic and very funny book says Russia also faked a moon landing.  Before reading t...

Bitching About Fitness-Optional Soldiers

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Recently I was on the phone for about a half hour with a reporter from Deseret News.  The topic was soldiers and fitness.  She is writing...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Screwtape in Iraq

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This post is a repost from Iraq.  I haven't seen this post in years.  It was fun to write and mimic Screwtape.  But if you want to hea...