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a new day Wow been a while since I have really been on this site or updated here. I finally got through the move to Campbell and let me tell you this is a complete change from what I was used to, oh my god is it. But to get here talk about fun. The last two weeks that I spent at Hood was just one thing after another. Not fun at all. Well it started just right after thanksgiving we get woken up at 5am for an inspection of the rooms, yeah my mind is like not good. My roommate was a mess, always was, and him being an NCO there is not much I could say to him. Well for that whole week when I was supposed to be outprocessing I spent cleaning the barracks because other people are slobs or don’t keep up with cleaning. I never did final out of Hood, I had to have someone else do that for me. Then the unit doesn’t award PCS awards to anyone, which just doesn’t happen. each time you PCS you get an award, an AAM or something. nadda. Eh I flew out arrived in a weekend, and that Monday morning on Campbell it was a nice 4 mile run in 20 degree weather. Yeah the first two miles I couldn’t feel my fingers or toes let alone face, but I loved it. It hurt like heck, it was a pain to finish, I struggled to finish, but I did. I loved it. In Hood the longest we ran was 2.5 miles. By the end of that first week in reception we ran an 8 mile run on Friday, that was loads of fun for me, it sucked and hurt but it was fun. While I am in reception though the first day I have someone from my unit get my information, the second day my Sargeant meets me and gives me his cell number. That night we talked for a while. I am in a great Unit, really great. We might deploy this summer, it was announced on the news when I came home for leave for Christmas. They said another 3400 troops from Campbell to deploy this summer. They already have deployed all but our BCT, so that leaves just us to deploy. I will see, but if not they said by Sept through Feb of ’11 which will give me some time with the wife and . Not enough time to find and develop a relationship with a Sub, but ah well, sometimes you need to make sacrificies, I have made more than my fair share already. This year if I have time I plan on doing college, EMT-B, Air Assault school, contacting CID or possibly even talking to someone about dropping my Warrant Officer packet as well. I will see how things go with what I do, I have a lot of ideas but nothing definite right now other than those schools. Soon I will also have my driver’s license as well, that will be fun. On this deployment I will also be doing convoys and patrols, getting shot at and possibly blown up. Gonna make the most of it though, learn a lot and use that knowledge to keep others alive. I plan on buying a home sometime in Feb as well. I am looking around and will submit my VA loan during that month and pick up a house. It might not be the best house on the market but it is something. I can say I have achieved what many others have not. When I met my then friend and now wife when I proposed I told her I could not work, I couldn’t buy her a ring, a car or a home, but I will one day, that I promise. I got her the ring, the car, and soon the house. It has been a long hard road to get where I am right now. To get through basic training, ait at the top of my class, then survive a year in Iraq and now home as well it has not been easy. Passing all these PT tests on either broken bones, torn ligaments, pneumonia or something else was never easy, specially not at my age. But I did it, pushed hard and long and succeeded when other failed. Now I just got to keep pushing and get better, get stronger, get faster, keep those around me safe and return home to my wife and when it is time to deploy again. But other than that I have also been writing again, which feels great to do. I have to finish my first novel sometime this year, I hope. I want to finish this one just in case I deploy and get killed, at least this book will be around for people in the future. The Main character is faced with choices to make and the sacrifices she makes to keep her oath. Yes the main character is a female, strong and great. It got started because of people talking to me about sacrifice, yet they really don’t know what it means to keep an oath, and the sacrifices you make to do that, even if it damns your soul. I have also started to write my poetry again, this first one I got finished was called The Cry of the Valkyrie. I will post up parts of it soon, but not the whole thing, I don’t want someone ripping if off as their own, I like it way too much. But other than that one I have three others I am slowly working on and trying to get right. If I get a chance I will post bits and pieces of them as I get them finished as well. I don’t know but when I was at Hood I just felt different than I do now. I feel great right now, alive and happy again, but at hood with the BS details we were always doing, the crap wit the barracks it started to make me feel worthless, like a crap soldier. But not so here, I feel like this is the place I have been waiting for, can’t wait to get back, get trained and deply again. It is weird but I feel like deployments are great, it is odd because I miss my family, but I am at peace being deployed, do that make sense to anyone? |
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I understand. When you are deployed you get the chance to do what you were trained for and sometimes what you actually enlisted for. Best of luck at the new post. Ars longa, vita brevis - Art is long, life is short  
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