Hey I got deployed...

Ate so much at Thanksgiving that I actually threw up about an hour later. 

Ya, that's not a bad entry after months of silence.

I've done this a lot recently. Just sat here at the whole post and Entry page and wrote a few sentences and then just "X" out of the window. I really can't think of that much to write about. I used to go back and re-read through my old journal entries for inspiration and I've done been doing that, but nothing seems to...spark...

I've been in the Army for almost 6 years now. Deployed twice and everything seems to fall into this perdictable pattern of blah. I've lost touch with all of my old friends back home. It's not any one persons fault, but well...take this for example. This past 30 days of leave that I had....
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See I don't even want to write anymore about that, just seems blah. Michigan is blah. Tecumseh is blah. College students are blah. Kentucky, Tennesse, Army, Iraq, Afghanistan it's all mother flippin blah. How've you been Sarah? Why do you still talk to me? It's been...hell I don't know, whenever we saw Phantom of the Opera back in...2004? Now you're in Japan teaching english, well good for you. I know you'll read this sooner or later, you always do. Who else reads this thing still...Well lemme think, Dana fo sho, but that's obvious since she has my damned password. Gennelle once in awhile I guess. Micki more likely'en not. There's a few more, but I know for a fact there are people who glance at this thing now and again Andrew, Nicki, becky, various army friends for some reason, Brandi, Jennifer, Mandi and whomever else I forgot about.

I'm done, I'm posting this, but it's yet again the worst post ever.

So, I'm only 24. I can't shake this feeling though that...


I'm
really
fucking
stupid.

Never
you
mind.

So, myspace. It's been another deployment. Shits done and over with. Time to go back home and get drunk and be stupid and re-train and do it all over again. I'll be honest, I didn't really do shit while I was over here. I've pretty much been living on a FOB doing stupid shit to keep me entertained, but I like lists, so here goes.

1. Arrive at Afghanistan
2. Have a ND through 3 B-Huts and thus get a Field Grade ART 15...neat.
3. Do nothing for 8 months. Seriously, I slept through the days and watched movies at night. Every now and then I'd take out the SUV and just drive around the FOB wondering how far I'd get if I left the gate.
4. Come to Sharana...pretty much do the same thing, but at the same time technically be responsable for Base Defense...whatever.
5. Break one of my few rules that I've always followed while deployed...whoops, should've waited that one out.
6. Redploy, get drunk, go home and other places.

Yeah...that's about it really. Damn, I can't wait to get stop lossed. Maybe it'll be the initial push for Iran or some shit.

Fuck.

I had this thing on a pen drive, but it won't load, so...

Fuck will sum it up as usual nicely.

I am alive.

I am well enough.

I'll be back state side sooner rather then later.

I should have 30 days of leave around April.

You all recieved a lovely Christmas e-mail from me and none of you responded...

For Shame.


Other then that I'll see you when I see you

And call you when I call you.

Uhm, peace out.

Donna Tart - The Secret Histroy *
Stephen King - The Long Walk, The Myst, Cell, The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, The Waste Lands, Wizard and the Glass, Wolves of the Callah, Song of Susannah, The Dark Tower
Charles Bukawski - Post Office, Factotum
James Clavell - Shogun, King Rat *
David Sedaris - Dress your family in Corduroy and Denim
Marty Beckermen - Generation Slut
Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Chuck Palahniuk - Diary, Choke, Rant, Invisable Monsters, Smut
Mark E. Eberhast - Why Things Break
Larry Bonds - First Team
Max McCoy - Hinter Land
Margret Weis and Tracy Hickman - Dragons of Autum Twilight Trilogy
Jon Krakauer - Into Thin Air
Nicholas Johnson - Big Dead Place *
Vince Flynn - Act of Treason
James Frey - A Million Little Pieces
Orson Scott Card - Enders Game *
Jenatte Walls - The Glass Castle
Augusten Burroughs - Running With Scissors
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
Cormac McCarthy - No Country for Old Men
T.S. Elliot - The Waste Land
Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Allan Moore and David Loyd - V for Vendetta
Lewis Carrol - Alice in Wonderland
Mike Resnick - The Widowmaker, The Widowmaker: Reborn, The Widowmaker Unleashed, Will the Last Person to Leave the Planet, Please Shut Off the Sun.
Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up And Ship Me Home
John Grisham - The Testament, The Pelican Brief

Okay, I'm not going to dredge up every book I've read while I've been deployed, I can think of a few others, but the titles elude me. So I'll just round it off to roughly sixty...one.

Ha.

Not exactly 6 months, but there's a few weeks here and there where reading just wasn't an option.

Assault Pack (Black Hawk or greater)
1. Immediate First Aid Kit
2. 1 Liter of water
3. 4 Ounces Rubbing Alcohol
5. 24 AA Batteries, 8 Surefire Batteries
6. 1 Poncho (Terrain Oriented. I.E. woodland, desert, snow, etc.)
7. 2 Paint Markers (Black)
8. 1 roll 550 Cord or similar cord (300' minimum)
9. 1 Box of Chem. Lights (6 hour life-span)
10. 4 Flashlights (Surefire or equivalent)
11. 1 Beanie, 1 sweatshirt, extra gloves
12. 4 Carabineers, screw locks
13. 1 Collapsible grappling hook
14. 1 Rappelling Rope (Length 150', Tensile Strength of 5,400 Lbs)
15. 1 Compass/Garmin or equivalent
16. X amount of small food items (Snack bars, gum, jerky, etc.)
17. 1 Pry Bar
18. 1 Set of bolt cutters

Uniform:
1. Boots or hiking type shoe.
A. Black, brown, tan or green.
2. Cargo Pants (Multiple Pockets, Natural terrain colors)
A. Gloves (Nomex, Kevlar, Leather type)
B. Cell Phone (Vibrate only, no lights)
C. Miscellaneous items (Minimal to no noise)
3. Long Sleeved T-shirt or Tight fitting jacket. (Multiple Pockets Preferred, Natural terrain colors)
4. Head Gear
A. Beanie, Ball Cap, Boonie.
1. Natural terrain colors.
2. No symbols or identifying marks.

SOP for superstitious/covert entry infiltration to follow.

Dude...
I so have a new hobby when I get back home.