VERY Long Days, But The Days Are Getting Shorter...
Yep, I'm back... sorry to those of you who missed me, I had to take a break from my little place of salvation here and live in the real world for a while...
What the "real deal" is, as some of you who've been here before know, I'm in the Army, and we're leaving for Iraq in less than 2 months (hence, the days getting shorter... like I had to tell you)... this past week, we spent 5 (count'em, I said FIVE) days in the field, getting "certified" on the things we're going to do when we get "there"... from Monday morning at 5 a.m., to today (Friday! Hurray!) at about 5:30 p.m.(the VERY long days... of course you knew that), we had to camp out and prove to another unit here on post (don't think I've said where... won't now either) that we know what we're doing when it comes to most all of the things the Army says we need to know before they let us go to Iraq for a year... we did very well, even though it seems my unit (platoon, actually) can't get along for more than two minutes in a row... now all we have to do before we leave is pretty much pack and finish paperwork... thank goodness all the "hard" stuff is over, only easy stuff left...
That is, if you feel that planning to leave your family and friends for a year to go overseas and do something that most people feel is not only unnecessary, but flat out wrong, is easy...
You know what, how's about we all do this: Take your mental eraser and simply wipe out EVERYTHING I just said in the preceding paragraphs... because if you don't, then before I know it, SOMEONE will end up posting a comment on here that will either be WAY to sappy/sympathetic, or will just flat out TICK me off, and to tell the truth, I don't want either kind of comment at all... in fact, if you can't just drop a nice hello here, please don't say anything at all...
Oh, by the way... I saw a couple of BEAUTIFUL sunrises, a few GORGEOUS sunsets, and slept in (and through) quite a few hours worth of rain... I saw a little bit of what nature has to offer, and I must say that when I look back on this past week, the beauty of it all made up for some of the "missing the family" and "pain in the ass" work I had to do... SOME, not all...
Peace...
What the "real deal" is, as some of you who've been here before know, I'm in the Army, and we're leaving for Iraq in less than 2 months (hence, the days getting shorter... like I had to tell you)... this past week, we spent 5 (count'em, I said FIVE) days in the field, getting "certified" on the things we're going to do when we get "there"... from Monday morning at 5 a.m., to today (Friday! Hurray!) at about 5:30 p.m.(the VERY long days... of course you knew that), we had to camp out and prove to another unit here on post (don't think I've said where... won't now either) that we know what we're doing when it comes to most all of the things the Army says we need to know before they let us go to Iraq for a year... we did very well, even though it seems my unit (platoon, actually) can't get along for more than two minutes in a row... now all we have to do before we leave is pretty much pack and finish paperwork... thank goodness all the "hard" stuff is over, only easy stuff left...
That is, if you feel that planning to leave your family and friends for a year to go overseas and do something that most people feel is not only unnecessary, but flat out wrong, is easy...
You know what, how's about we all do this: Take your mental eraser and simply wipe out EVERYTHING I just said in the preceding paragraphs... because if you don't, then before I know it, SOMEONE will end up posting a comment on here that will either be WAY to sappy/sympathetic, or will just flat out TICK me off, and to tell the truth, I don't want either kind of comment at all... in fact, if you can't just drop a nice hello here, please don't say anything at all...
Oh, by the way... I saw a couple of BEAUTIFUL sunrises, a few GORGEOUS sunsets, and slept in (and through) quite a few hours worth of rain... I saw a little bit of what nature has to offer, and I must say that when I look back on this past week, the beauty of it all made up for some of the "missing the family" and "pain in the ass" work I had to do... SOME, not all...
Peace...
posted by julio at 9:07 PM
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Thanks for stopping by my blog! Hope to see you again soon!
And don't worry - I'm not known to be particularly sappy or sympathetic!
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