Damn this is soem good pizzaaa--stopped and got it at the PX food court on the way home from Rich's house--where i went after work to hang out for a couple hours or so. I ran into his wife while I buying toiletries for the FTX starting tomorrow...
I'm delegaated as the driver for part of the company on this exercise, so yesterday I had the enviable task of doing a maintenance check on it, becoming licensed on the trailer it has so I could legally drive it, gassing it up and taking it for a bit of a whirl to get comfortabel with it...the last bit was fun--got to play army guy for a bit driving a HMMV around base. I wanted to go offroad for a bit but then Ida hafta have washed it and I didn't have time. I had to get back to work and talk about a soldier in our company that, now, turns out, we're planning on chaptering out of the army for underaged drinking/DUI...which is a shame really becasue she's a good kid and a good soldier for the most part--she just doesn't get the hint that she shouldn't be out drinking since she isn't 21...In fact I feel bad about doing the paperwork on her...Things haven't really started moving yet--this FTX is going to tie it up for a few days, but, *sigh*...
Beal moved into the room last night...so I have a roomie now for about a month or so till eh finds a new place off-post. HOPEFULLY, he finds a place off post so I can have a single room again. If not, well, he's a better and more welcome room mate than Schrek was...
hmmm....i didn't get enough pizzaa...grrr....
Got my SCSI controller card and got a cable for it today...will spend a bit of time playing with it adn my burner once I'm done here.
Tracy came over again last night for a spell. I offered her a drink and she ended up trashed, again.
Poor dan yesterday--some drunk, stupid yahoo threw a stoen block through his windshield sunday night...so I ended up loaning him a few hundred dollars and a couple rides to get it replaced. i think he was gonna come over tonight btu I went straight to Rich's so I wonder if he came by when I was gone...oh well.
SGT McGaffey left today for his next duty assignment, (he "PCSed" as we call it) Korea. Rich (Mig) and I drove down to the fayettville airport to see him off. Met this cool friend of his wife there--she was visting from Panema--first vacation the poor women's had in three years. What struck me was she had my mother's name...Larissa...I've never met another person with my mother's name...
"It's alright, it's just the end of the world..." CC
I was standing there, watching his plane take off, wondering
how life can be so cruel sometimes--how we soldiers can be seperated from
our families like that. He'll be gone a year away unless he can afford
to come home for his mid tour/year leave...that's some expensive plane
tickets though...
I watched Mig and Larissa play with Eric's (a chief warrant
officer friend of McGaffey's) son as I thought about this, and also McGaffey's
little, and I felt pride in myself and my fellow soldiers, that we will
voluntarily sactrifice ourselves and out lives in such ways, all for our
country, for our families, for our homes. There is no higher calling
besides God hiumself than serving in your nation's military I feel---no
greater display of patrionism or love. I feel proud to be able to
say I am one such man, a soldier, and I feel that, despite my surety of
no second tour, I will always look back with pride on my service.
I will encourage my sons and or daughters to serve as well.
And I love out infantry, as dense as many seem to be,
because of who they are and what they are putting forward for me, and for
you. I am glad, personally, that I am NOT infantry...but I respect
those who are.