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| It's June again, and everybody is either graduating from high school and college and going on their separate ways... I never really realized it when I got to my unit.. But it was like going through another 4 year course in another aspect of life.. I got to my unit along with 20 other brand new privates and we all endured all the hardships that came with being a "cherry".. Countless hours of "area beatification" together. Mowing the lawns, hedge trimming, picking up trash, mopping and waxing the hallways, cleaning the toilets/ urinals etc... And of course being smoked all the time... I'm sure we all remember "going to the zoo" duck wales, aligator crawls, bear crawl, crab walk, and of course the "rat stand"..... Then we all trained together, jumping out of C-130s or C-17s in the middle of the night, avoiding each other in the air, landing (thanking God real quick) and assembling and then conducting whatever mock assault we would do. We trusted each other enough to do live fire exercises, especially with me on the M240B laying down lead right in front of the front line trace guys and others with live AT-4s (anti tank missiles). We then would get deployed together, whether it was wadding through the flooded streets of New Orleans marking dead bodies to get picked up, or patrolling Baquba in Iraq and trying to stay alive with the heat being 130 degrees and never having enough water.. Then we finally came back and now everybody is gone....90% of the guys I went through 4 years of adventures and sucky times with are out of here. They all ETSd and all went back home to do whatever THEY want to do for a change... I'll be joining them here in about 2.5 months.. But I will probably be the last person of the bunch to leave..
So to any of you guys that might be reading this.. best of luck in whatever your doing.... oh.. and rudy, if YOUR reading this, we never actually pawned off your computer...but dowe got a hold of it....so I'm sure it's in a million pieces by now anyways...
My "graduating" (aka: getting the hell out of the army...) class...only 2 remain from this picture...
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| Still waiting on the word about my reclass, hopefully I'll know sometime this week were I'll be heading off too. I've also been saying bye to about 90% of the guys that I knew who are now out of the army.. Depressing.....
I'm supposed to get out of the army in about 5-6 months.. But as I'm sure I mentioned plenty of times before..I'm in about a tight a spot as you can get and I'm not going anywhere for a while...
It's not too often that I'm able to get to shoot my rifle since it's stored at a buddies house..but today I was able to get out with some guys and go shooting..
All I need now is to get a good optic on there instead of that keep red-dot sight.
My buddies rifle..
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| Not too much going on.. playing lots of Unreal Tournament III when we don't do anything..which has been most of this month really.. Well, I've been teaching as much as possible about the 240 to the new guys in my squad before I head out of here.. But as I found out the other day, I really can't teach them how to carry the gun so it doesn't suck when your marching miles upon miles through the woods..I guess that is more of a "on the job training.."
Had a APFT (Army Physical Fitness Test) on Friday..I was four sit ups short of scoring a perfect 300....maybe next time..
As I've said in previous posts and what not, It's about 90-95% that I'm going to hang up my infantry cord and give up my blue disks on my uniform and get retrained in another area of the army... Don't know what or where that is going to be yet. I'm going to probably find out in the next 3 weeks though.. My unit is getting too retarded for my sanity anyways, I wish I could explain why or how.. But it's just one of those things that you would have to be an Infantryman in the 82nd Airborne Division to understand..
But anyways..I got a date to get to, she's about 2 miles down the road and I never miss a chance to go see her: The Gym...oh yea....
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| Christmas is over, had a good time visiting friends and family. Now It's back to work and that means waking up at 5:15am, not so bright and early, more like dark and really early.. But whatever...
I'm also seriously debating whether I should get one of these fine pieces of weaponry:
M-4 (well, techincally not a M-4, but close enough..)
or..
Springfield M1A Socom II
Both are very nice and very expensive... one day soon though...and it's going to be sweet....
I was looking through all the pictures and movies that I have from Iraq and I came across a video that one of my friends put thogether about 5 months into our deployment and even though he would have to add like 15 more minutes of highlight footage to really get a grasp of how busy we were and all that we did, this shows a LITTLE of what we did,
Oh, and there is a possiablity I MIGHT be putting up my rifle and blue
cord here for good soon, I'm heading to a MMRB which is a medical
review board that might put me in another job in the Army due to my ear
damage I've obtained from being a machine gunner for these past few
years.... Which I'm acutally hoping I'll get reclassified anyways, I've
had enough of the infantry life.. you life involves sucking too much..
I've come to realize that what they tell you about pain isn't really
ture... Pain is not weakness leaving the body....it's just pain.... | | |
| We've been getting a lot of new guys (a.k.a "Cherries") and I can't help but think that I used to be one of those guys. Wide eyed and scared that every Spec-4 with a CIB was going to smoke my balls off if I looked at him the wrong way. Now the tables have turned and I'm the combat E-4 with 4 cherries in my squad, standing at parade rest for me and calling me specialist and all that crap. Weird.....
When I was the cherry
A lot changes in 3 years and 15 month in Iraq
Oh, and today I got relased for 24 days of leave.. yipee... I would've had 30, but the 82nd, in classic form, just had to screw me over. But dosen't matter, I'm free for 24 days and I'm going to make the most of it.
Oh, and if anyone is in N.C. from January 1st -7th and wants to hang out or do whatever, give me a call..
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