When the Smoke Clears

A positive attitude is supposed to be the way to go. It’s hard right now. So many things are looking up, pushing me in a direction, while other things have cropped up making life difficult. But we soldier on.
And now there’s so much more.
I always talk to my mom on Sundays, even if [...]

Ready to loose a little faith in your Army?
Here I am, back at home after a few days of holiday madness. There is a message on my phone from someone working in an office to let me know to check my email. I should have scans of some official paperwork.
And there was. Paperwork [...]

Seconds pass slowly
Unmarked minutes disappear unclaimed
Yet the race is on, the challenge thrown
Uncertainty
Disruption
Foundationless
Challenged honor
These years went too quickly
Spent for naught but broken promise.
The future will come
But at a cost.

So I did it again. I went a little crazy. A confluence of events took me away. I decided with the run up to OCS in a few short weeks, with a few nightmares that have solidified into things more tangibly horrific at work, etc. it was time to take a few days off.
I hopped [...]

Thanks to my lack of attentiveness and the attentiveness of certain blog-brethren we saw that the old site here had some evil code inserted.
Since I use a Mac I never saw anything related to it as it would not affect me… and I will end my smugness there… but nonetheless…
Anyway, back and ready [...]

Forget about me, today is a day I’m filled with pride for my friends. Today, in a regular cycle that happens three times a year, I saw a number of my young ones commissioned as second lieutenants in the Army. Today was special because most of this latest crop are some whose lives I have [...]

I believe it was Nietzche who once said, “Weekends were made for Michelobe.”
Well, he was wrong, at least in my case.
Weekends have been made for being in the field or at drill or drilling in the field. (oh, and by the way, the site was hacked and had a few other issues, part [...]