On my way back to Iraq after mid-tour leave during my second tour, I had a layover in Dallas while I waited for my flight back to Baghdad. I was sitting in the airport Chili’s, enjoying what would become my last high-quality burger for the next several months, when an… I don’t want to say older, I guess ‘more mature’
I miss BDUs. I miss being able to roll my sleeves.
Dad, I love that story and I will never get tired of hearing it. That's pretty much the same way HBW tells it too. Thanks for posting the story to kick me into gear on this project. I love the pic of HBW too. He looks like the kid on that one movie, "Flight of the Navigator". I am eagerly awaiting the day when our son makes a mistake in the kitchen!
Hey Tex, have your kids seen the Pixar flick 'Ratatouille'? Connor was resistant to eating new things until he watched that a couple of times. Now whenever we serve him something new, we encourage him to see if he can pick out the flavor combinationations, and he gets a dreamy little look like the rat in the movie, and tries to explain what he's tasting. He's tried everything from chicken enchiladas to kimchi, and now it's an adventure for him instead of an exercise in pulling teeth.
That's my boy...!
My favorite was going down to the air-field to get a bucket of rotor-wash...
Welcome to joeuser, George. I respectfully remind you that there is more to military service than the pay and benefits we recieve. While they are imortant to us, for the great majority of servicemen they are only part of the reason we serve. We are all painfully aware of the disadvantages to military service that you've listed, including healthcare, low pay, long deployments, etc. They are not surprises. As for your other points, suc
Recently one of the civilian contractors I work with a lot over here was commenting on her single status, about how she was happy enough as things stood, but she didn’t want to be single forever. “I don’t want to get married just for the sake of getting married, though.” She said. “I want a marriage like you and your wife have, Wanderer.” “How d
Today is also the 11th anniversary since I signed on the line and raised my hand and swore to defend the nation against all enemies foreign and domestic. At the time I had no idea what the significance of the date was, and when the Master Sergeant handed me a slice of cake, I thought the whole army was going to be pretty cool. Sign up, free cake! What a deal!
I remember Golfy-dog. I remember he was big and furry and would let me climb on him and he liked when I pet his head. I hope you tell all the old Golf stories, I'm looking forward to them.
Good for you Angela! See, Life, you can't just have a regular hobby like other folks you have to have something completely awesome and out of the ordinary. And now you're leading your friends into it. Maybe you'll start a national trend, and like aerobics was for the 80's, trapeze will be for the 00's. You are awesome, girl.
Uh oh, you're up to #8! must be the article on failure you're a big success around here, though
Hey girl, I don't know if you noticed, but right now you are #10 on Joe's Top Ten Blog Sites! Check out the lower right column here.... Congrats! You Rock!
mine hasn't got 3 deuces, but it will give you whiplash shifting in any gear.
There's just something special about a GTO...
Check it out, Daddy, your article is on the Featured List! Cool!
Thanks Daddy, for everything.
There's some backwards thinkning for you... instead of teaching truck drivers to handle fuel, teach fuelers to drive trucks. I wonder where the corners got cut in that plan.
My Child Bride... You were beautiful when I met you, and you get lovelier every day, more gorgeous as time goes on.
My poor little girl. My poor lovely wife. I hope you guys are ok.
Any idea where Ronnie is today? It's cool to hear these stories, but it's even cooler when you get to meet the people in them. One of these days, I may tell my own couple of 'Tales of the Chief...'
I'm going to give this one a bump to get it rolling through the forums.
Caveat: I actually wrote this piece several weeks ago after someone else had posted a 'give peace a chance' article. I hadn't planned on posting anything for a while, but I just read Little-Whip's article here: Link and thought that instead of a really long comment, I could leave an even longer article.
Make sure you get plenty of pictures, and see if they'll let you video your arial exploits. Do you get to wear a body suit with lots of sequins? You Rock!
Actually, right now I think I'm going to wallow in my misery for a while You're so cute when you wallow...
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