After christmas

Hey guys, i have been on leave and things have been great. I am in Louisiana and i think that i will go to new orleans or we may even go to new york for the new year. This is great. I also told Katie about just being friends and she was sad, but i think she took it ok. Things have been ok and i guess as long as they are ok things are good.

Well i will talk to you guys later.

christmas

Christmas was great. I had fun, and i even spent it with Katie. Things were ok and she wants to take things further. I decided that(but havent told her) that it would be best to keep things as friends because we have a awesome friendship. I dont want to hurt her but i must do it.

Aslo... two U.S. Apache helicopters collided in iraq over the holidays and one was dead. CAP said that he would find out who the pilots were and let us know. We all fly together and know each other well even if we are in differnt branches of the military. I hope that there families can be strong during this time of grief.

Well i will see you guys later...

Got Off Early

hey guys, sorry that i havent been online to post much. I was kinda under the weather and it has been really bad. I only get sick once or twice a year. When it hits me, it hits be good. So i guess i will go to see my Grandmother and my mom and folks for x-mas and that will be that. I am so ready for the new year to come in i cant wait. Hopefully i can do something fun for the new year. Like fly to new york or paris...well maybe not but it sounded good! Well i gotta getto packing hope you guys have a merry x-mas

We will be leaving Soon.. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey guys, how is it going. We will be leaving Ft Carswell NAS soon for Barksdale AFB. Its great..Mckinney has been good to me, but im ready to leave for more reasons than one. I decided go back over some of my emails and answer some questions in the blog that i have neglected to answer for whatever reason.

First- Mr. Ops-opt: My mission to help iraqi kids is not with the toys for tots. A group of dedicated bloggers, civilians and other special ops personel have given there time, money and toys to help the kids have some happy holiday. Also the reason why i dont give too much information about some things(such as the hospital that i visited) and i give a whollllle lot of information like(being in starbucks in mckinney) is because the military has just trained me to do that, and second of all..if you read earlier people or should i say bloggers tried to get me punished because of my blog. I would also like to say that i dont write about the horror of iraq. I think that people everyday know about the horror of iraq if they use common sense and keep up with it. I write about everyday occurences that happen in iraq that the media refused to cover. I would however like to know more about you. To be honest with you, i know nothing about you. You seem mystical. I have even had some of my military buddies claim that you are close or that you have ties to the person(s) in Mckinney Tx who "started" the whole letters sent to the Special Operations command... Frankly i dont know. You are however very mystical and you are weird but your private. I apologize if you think that i should be differnt, but im not. I am me. I would never tell or write something about war that i saw or heard about that would make people have life altering experiences on my blog. If you were in Special Operations, then you should know about the CODEC. I am a straight forward guy who believes that all women, men, and children are equal. I have a women friend who can out shoot me with a .50 cal. SHe is awesome and i respect her for that. I think that women can do anyting that i man can do. Merry x-mas :)

Mr: Canada- You asked me via email what did i want for x-mas and would i do the iraq thing over again. The answer is yes. I love being in iraq. I lovedhelping people. The hard or difficult part was seeing suffering from poor and innocent people. It just hurts to see that. But i would do it again. I just want fishing stuff for x-mas

Snoopy: you asked about katie.. well we are coool but we havent taken that step yet. I want to but im scared. I guess we will see.

Blow up doll lady: you have been a true supporter of me and you tried countless times to send me a blow up doll in iraq and i refused with laughter every time. Now that i am home i will refuse again. I am sure that you and your "novelty" business are doing great, but that isnt my cup of tea.

gateway: You wanted to know how my grandmother is doing. Well she is going to be a great grandmother again so she is happy and she is in Houston right now. That lady travels sooo much. I dont think she will ever slow down.

Karen in Austin: I did forward your email to CAP. You seem pretty cool. CAP is here and things are good. We are glad that our buddies are doing well in iraq and no birds have been shot out of the sky.

Alex: Heya kid. Thanks for all of your support. If you truly want to join the air force, do it. I did it with my parents consent at 17. I went to MEPS and i did it. You dont have to fly behind helos or jump out of air planes. The air force has so much to offer man. You can do any job you want without worries of war by joining the air force, and you will still get medals and stuff for being 6k miles away. When you get ready, let me know and i will set up a time for one of my buddies or friends that they know to take you on the base near you and show you about any job(within reason) that you want. Goodluck and i hope you do good on your finals..


Well now that im caught up i will quit wasting tax payers dollars and get back to work..seasons greetings and im sorry about the first post pilot mom...i hope you come back and read it. It was a error with the wireless internet connection :D

see ya

On This Day

On this day on the second xmas of the Iraq war, I was in a HMMV in a convoy hating every minute of it. It was cold, wet and the enemy didn't stop because Christmas was near. So we set out from our FOB and the heaters in the hummv where doing the best that they could. I can remember it like it was yesterday. We were sent out to set up surveillance on a particular area of Iraq, and if needed we could use an Iraq's house as a lookout point for insurgents or bombs. We hated doing that, but sometimes it needed to be done...Hopefully not this time. So as we stroll along, a guy named Kevin asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I replied that I wanted some testicle warmers and wife some kids and a dog. We all laughed and then we rolled on. As we made it to one area of town that was known for violent acts of insurgency, we set up a check point. When this happens, you dismount the vehicle and everyone spreads out and you have people in the front, the middle and the rear protecting you while checking cars for things that they shouldn't have. Well that went ok, and we don't ever stay any longer than a few minutes because then you get ambushed..So we hop back into the vehicle and try to get warm again. We move on down the roadway watching out for craters from previous blasts and we come upon a neighborhood. I remember that something was wrong... It was too quiet. Kids were running home, fires were burning but unattended and Kevin said check your weapons, its showtime. We radioed to the other to be on the lookout for unfriendlies and posers. The Guys in the turrets scan looking any chance to save our ass. The streets were quiet. We ride for about a quarter mile and we pass the IP(Iraqi Police) and they wave and have flashing lights. We all say almost at the same time that the IP are no good. We go on and the IP are out of sight and then BOOM! A rpg hits the truck in front of us and we get ready to form a dismount. One vehicle is on fire and we dont know the casualties. We return fire from within the HMMV while other vehicles dismount and return fire and tend to the burning vehicle. We finally dismount and i tell a guy by the name of pike to open fire on a lone car. I told him that it may be a car bomb and he did. Nothing. I guess someone just got there car riddeled with bullet holes for nothing. Back to the action We continue to fire into the direction of the rpgs and i call in for air assests. After about 4 minutes of firing, there is no enemy to return fire. We set up a perimeter and look at the bird(helicopters and jets) as they fly over head giving us air to ground info on the insurgency. All is clear says one pilot. He radioes back and makes the comment that he was too late to have a little fun with the "ragheads" and he is flying back to the air craft carrier. I didnt agree with them being called ragheads but i bit my tounge and continued on the ground. Well like clock work, a few Iraqis come out to survey the damage and Kevin tells them in there native langauge to go back inside and they do.... All except for one kid. he refuses to listen. he is a teen with short hair, nicely dressed and dark. When i mean dark, i mean that he is dark, i mean his soul is dark. It is one of those things that i guess you have to be witness too. I could tell that his hatred runs deep. I radio to the Lt. to ask for permission to take a clean head shot. Permission denied. I ask again, and permission is denied with agression in his voice. I keep my sights on him and he wont listen to commands. Warning shots are fired and they dont phase him. One last time, he is warned...then he raises his head and screams allah akbar and then boom. he detonates a strap with explosives taped to his body and i remember being hit with shrapnel. The flak jackets that we used at the time were very poor. It was standard army issue equipment and i shouldnt have been wearing them, but i damaged my air force issue one. I can remember the hot pieces of fire hitting me all on my back and torso. Burning my flesh. I was down, ears ringing, damaged but not wounded. I mustered up the strength to stand up after tellling the medics that i was ok and they needed to tend to the other guys. Blood was all over my uniform. I had pieces of this young kids flesh on arms and head. I wiped my face and secured the area. Another kid comes out, and goes into his shirt and i burst twice into him. He falls. His mother comes out crying over his body and stands up and runs toward us. She gets a burst into her. She falls. A young girl is standing there. Looking and staring at us and then them, and back to us and to them. I turn and fix my sights on the young girl. She is about 5 or six years old. I dont trust her. Her whole family just came close to killing me and there is a part of me that wants her to go back inside. I know that if she makes a sudden move, that i wont hesistate. I wont hesistate to come home. A older girl pulls her back inside. The marines come. The adrealine wears off. I have blood dripping from my body like sweat. I hurt... i sting... i collapse. I get flown out of the area...then to germany to recover from flesh wounds. Wounds that will stay with me forever. People ask me now..hey where did you get those scars on your chest and back from. I tell them. Saddam. They look at me funny. They ask if im iraqi.. i tell them im an american. This day i will never forget

I read Marv's post and i had to write about this too

Ok i read marvs post and i decided to write about this. First off i would like to say that Marv is cool and you guys should check out her blog!

Ok to the story... I went into best buy to buy a laptop for my mom for christmas. I told the best buy guy that i was looking for a laptop around 1800 bucks and i dont want to do rebates or any of that stuff. The last time that i sent a rebate check off from a company it bounced so i dont do rebates..and whats the point anyway? Rebates are a legal way to launder money. Anyhoo, so the guy asks me if im ready to buy today and i say yes if i can find what im looking for. So the guy proceeds to tell me that if i buy a computer then i can get a best buy gift card for free worth 300.00 dollars. I was like is this a rebate or what? He said no, this is just for buying from us and not buying from the other guys. SO i asked him to let me talk to the manager who said the same thing. So i got the computer spent the gift card on x-mas trinkets and left. Well i was in the process of taking the crazy stuff off of a new computer that slows it down and boggs it down and then it kept on powering off. So i got ticked and took the computer back to the store to get a new one. Well when i went in there, i had to talk to the "geek squad" and they looked at the computer and they said that there was nothing wrong with the computer. So i ask the guy what tests did he run? he stated that he used the broken comp to run a test on itself to fix the computer. I was like wth! I told him to run a real test on the comp using a differnt machine..well they wouldnt so i wanted to ask for a refund for the 1800 bucks because of poor service. Then they wanted to charge me for a recyling fee of like 245 bucks because of the product that they the "trained" professionals looked at but didnt test. I got loud after repeated requests of being nice. Then some customer svc mgr came over and made it worse and i asked him who the general mgr was \...he lied and toldh me that he was the main guy there. I called the cust svc center(corporate) and they were no help, and then they said that the gift card was a rebate. thats when i blew a lid and i told them that i explained to the guys that i hate rebates and i was told that the gift card was a gift for not going to the compeitior. They went back on there word then so i left..went back to mckinney then called the cust svc ctr yet againa and nothing happened. So i called the best buy back in louisiana and they agreed that if i would drive back to louisiana and give them the equipment or fedex it to them that they would give me any comp of equal value plus a gift card for the shipping! I will never ever ever shopt at best buy again. Not online or in the store. I wont do it!

Well thats my story..if you guys have stories please share them... SIGH I feel better

back from the field

hey guys hows it going? Sorry i havent posted in a while, but i would like you guys to know that everything is ok. I had to go out in the field to work (joint) with the military forces and it was great! We actually all got along and even though it was cold and rainy sometimes, it was great! We left out of texas and headed to the northwest part of the country and we had a blast. We beefed up our skills on living off of the earth and it was great. I didnt get a chance to talk to Katie like i wanted to but when i did it was awesome. I HOPE EVERYONE IS OK AND I WILL BE WRITING BACK SOON.

100th Post and Fun In the Cold.

Well this is my 1ooth post and i cant believe it. Thats a lot of posting in such a short time. Mac who is still in iraq has helped me alot and i couldnt have done it without her. This weekend has been fun quite intresting. We went fishing, to the mall, to eat and to see horses run at this guys ranch and there was the time that we just went out and drove aimlessly around to talk about things from the world to what she wants to do with her life, to Iraq and its situation. We also talked to CAP and his kiddo too. Fishing was fun. It was at this park and well i didnt catch anything but it was fun. She told me about her friend who was getting treated bad by her bf and she "loved" him so much. WTF is up with that? There aint enough love in the world for me to let someone continue to screw me over and treat me bad. I mean once i get screwed over and realize it and reailize that someone actually was aware of there actions then i am gone. I figure that i can do bad by myself. We also went to visit some sick kids in a hospital and that was sad but rewarding. I think i will give them a christmas gift or something. They deserve it. Kids with cancer or something like that deserve to at least have a good christmas. I cant imagine being cooped up in a hospital for christmas. Today will be the day i guess that we will go to OK and explore stuff there since it isnt too far away. All in all things are great.

Oh and i would like to thank all of the ladies and gents that like to pick and make fun of some of the things that people like me are afraid of.

Also to mr. ops-out :
I just wanted you to know that Katie wouldnt be the Katie that i know if we werent playing pranks and jokes on each other. Throwing water baloons at her and popping her with towels are things that we have done to each other for quite awhile now, and if we stopped that then something would be wrong with us. We wouldnt be acting like us. For example.. earlier when i was sleeping, CAPS daughter and katie decided tht while i was sleeping that they would spray my face with whipcream. :) It was funny yummy and fun, but thats her. In retalition, CAPS daughter and i pushed her off the bed(not hard, and shes a damn marine so she is tough anyway but a girlie girl) and she laughed. We are friends first and then if something else develops then we will be friends first plus more. I value her friendship and i would never do anything to hurt her. So you and Mrs.OPS-OUT can be worry free, but thanks for the advice. Oh and by the way...everyone wants to know about you. You dont have a blog thats accessable :( and we wanna know about you. I only think that its fair for us to know about you, and im sure your life or your past is intresting and i wanna know.

catch ya guys later

:(

Hey guys, katie wont arrive now until 8pm because of some delays at the airport. I am sitting here patiently waiting on time to pass. I think i will clean..maybe that will make the time go bye. Also ops-out is correct. The horse drawn carriage is in a place called chicashee OK not OK City, so thanks for that correction. I will update a post as soon as she gets here and i hope that she will let me takes pictures of her.

ttyl

A blog full of women with a few sprinkles of manhood is just well priceless

First off i would like to say that each and every one of you ladies that are true supporters to what i do and write(even if you dont agree with it) and i would just like to thank you. I did some research on the depression after baby thing and i was flabber gasted. In a situation like that, you will actually need tons and tons and tons of support. That condition doesnt discriminate. It can take on any women, even if she has never expereinced depression. I have even more respect for women and how they work. I have often posted that i would like to know the secrets of women and what makes them tick, and of course all women and there sisterhood or alliance or pact or whatever yall have wont let me in. DAMN!!

I would also like to thank the guys who are prior service, retired or just supportive of what i write(even if you like it) I would like to also say that without you guys paving the way for me, i wouldnt be able to do what i do today.

Now on to the juice..lol I always have to give thannks to you guys because you are awesome. As you know from my previous post, Katie likes me and well i like her too. I am afraid that it may ruin the friendship if it doesnt work, but hell i was also afraid when that military officer fresh out of west point screwed our coordiantes up in iraq and well we were outnumberd and i had to call in a airstrike on my on position(check the blog for that one) but hey i guess life is about chances. So i tell her that we should just talk openly and see how things go. She was receptive to that and so far it has been going ok. Then i asked her what she was doing this weekend, and she said nothing. She asked me what i was doing, and i said oh nothing but working and thinking about doing something romantic this weekend, and she was like what do you mean? I told her that if she could be here this weekend, i would drive her up to Oklahoma City with CAP and his daughter and we would look at the christmas lights while in a horse carriage with blankets. She told me to hold on, and i heard click click click click really fast, and she said ok Mr.Romance pick me up at the airport at 4pm. My mouth dropped! I couldnt belive it. I got butterflies and more butterflies and i think that for the first time i got morning sickness in the afternoon. Then she goes and says this will be fun because i just got off of my period! UGHHHHHHH PUKE PUKE PUKE No more butterflies, now i feel qweezy. Sick..Check that post as well to get that info. I told her for like the 10 thousandth time that she doesnt have to disclose her days of discomfort to me. Sigh I think that she along with SUZ likes to terrorize me with the word. I was talking to suz one day and she decided to see how many times she could say "the word" and ugh! If only the iraq terrorists knew that all they had to do was wave a box of tampons within a 50 yard radius of me that it would adversly affect my shot behind a .50 cal. UGH!

So i will keep ya guys updated on that.

Update on CC Girl and other things

Ok yesterday started off as a good day. One of the pararescueman had abirthday today and we decided to let him go where he wanted to go for his birthday and we would pay for it. Well he decided that he wanted to go to the SaltGrass steakhouse and well we went there. We had to dress today in our desert BDU's and people assumed that we were fresh out of iraq, and we told them that we were fresh, but not freaking i still have the iraqi sand in my eyes fresh. Well anyway we were talking and the managers decided to give us all of our meals for free and we said whoo hoo. Now we usually dont accept free stuff, but this guy was persistent. He even pulled up a chair and wanted to know about iraq, and so did a few other tables. It was like we were Kevin Costner or Leonardio Di Caprio..lol Anyhow the manager finally left us and we ate and talked and drank some beer. Well since we didnt pay for anything, we decided to take him out elsewhere. So we were like hmm..where do we go, where do we go. So we decided to take him to the outlet mall which was ages away and he got some really cool stuff, and so did i. It was fun. While we rode back home, we got to thinking about the time he farted in the helo and with massive amounts of stinky air we could still smell his rotten ass, and how CAP threw water on me while i was sleeping.. :D Those were the days...

Now on to CAP he is going through a time with his wife and the divorce and it is getting crazy! For all of you guys who have been reading, and for the ones who havent.. i encourage you to read so you can understand this. A while back i told you guys about our trip home and how CAP didnt tell anyone that he was coming home, and he walked through the door to find his wife naked on webcam doing somethings..LOL. Well since they are going through the divorce and apparantly he took a picture of her naked with his Camera Phone for evidence, she says that she was looking up female problems online and she was checking herself just as a woman does for lumps in her breast. Now i dont mean to get gross on here, but i doubt that women check there vaginal region while on webcam for health reasons with a big sex toy lingering close by. UGH! I feel so sorry for CAP's daughter. She is the sweetest baby and her mom does and says the craziest things. There are some people who cant have kids, and she has kids and doesnt want them! WoW....

Now on to CC girl... Well CC girl and I are still friends and i chose to keep it that way because she lied to me about some things, and well this goes back to reading my blog from the beginning... I hate being lied to, and especially by a woman. SOrry ladies who read this but its true. I can brag and say that i am a good man(one of the few left) who doesnt hit,cheat,steal,disrespect and i still like flowers and mushy stuff too. I asked her if she had ever been married, and she told me no, and in reality she was going through a divorce, which makes her MARRIED and i dont do the MARRIED thing. I would feel horrible right now if we did the big thing!!! So i told her that we will remain friends and that was that..

In other news i have a friend that i constantly keep in contact with by the name of Katie. Her whole name is mary kate, but she hates that lol. Anyhoo we have been friends since 7th grade. I can remember while we were in highschool and she was really short then(not now she has grown some inches) i got on my knees and danced with her at her prom because she was listening to my belly sounds when we slow danced. She has been a great friend. She is somewht affliated with the military and she has been there with me through thick and thin. Because i am in special operations and im on the go so much, i have given her power of attorney attimes, and she has taken care of my bills and i was there for her when she had a miscarriage at 7 months. It was a really hard time for her and she suffered from that depression after baby thing. I never understood that, and i would like some personal input on it if it has happened to you. Now she is over(for the lack of better words) the depression and she has been trying to tell me something for like 6 years now, and she could never muster up enough balls to just say it. I would always hound her about saying it, and she would never give in until recently. She just told me that she has had a crush on me for years but she was too afraid to tell me. She told me that she is happy when she is around me or when i just call her and she wants to take it further. :/ For what felt like an eternity, i just held the phone.... and i said oooooooooooook. She told me that she was embarrassed, and this was the first time that she has ever been embarrassed in front of me and i was like yeah... hell i have seen you in your bra and undies before when you were like really sick and i took care of you. She said well get back to me and let me know what you think....
now i am confused like hell, but i like her as well and she does make me feel great and all of that good stuff, and i love her too. I have the kinda love for her that would allow me too sleep i nthe same bed without anything sexual going on, or to buy her flowers and candy(which i have sent for absoloutly no reason) for many years. Speaking of flowers and candy i tallied up the total amount of money spent on her since i have known her and it was freaking out of this world. I am not ashamed of it, but i have bought alot of gifts and trinkets for her. It is somewhere near 4 grand. From bracelets in germany to little hats from pakistan to cards and letters and stamps and clothes. She was the only girl that i ever picked out clothes for and i got cursed out because i got her like clothes that were too big for her hehehe... well if you have any suggestions please let me know.. see ya

Update on CC Girl and other things

Ok yesterday started off as a good day. One of the pararescueman had abirthday today and we decided to let him go where he wanted to go for his birthday and we would pay for it. Well he decided that he wanted to go to the SaltGrass steakhouse and well we went there. We had to dress today in our desert BDU's and people assumed that we were fresh out of iraq, and we told them that we were fresh, but not freaking i still have the iraqi sand in my eyes fresh. Well anyway we were talking and the managers decided to give us all of our meals for free and we said whoo hoo. Now we usually dont accept free stuff, but this guy was persistent. He even pulled up a chair and wanted to know about iraq, and so did a few other tables. It was like we were Kevin Costner or Leonardio Di Caprio..lol Anyhow the manager finally left us and we ate and talked and drank some beer. Well since we didnt pay for anything, we decided to take him out elsewhere. So we were like hmm..where do we go, where do we go. So we decided to take him to the outlet mall which was ages away and he got some really cool stuff, and so did i. It was fun. While we rode back home, we got to thinking about the time he farted in the helo and with massive amounts of stinky air we could still smell his rotten ass, and how CAP threw water on me while i was sleeping.. :D Those were the days...

Now on to CAP he is going through a time with his wife and the divorce and it is getting crazy! For all of you guys who have been reading, and for the ones who havent.. i encourage you to read so you can understand this. A while back i told you guys about our trip home and how CAP didnt tell anyone that he was coming home, and he walked through the door to find his wife naked on webcam doing somethings..LOL. Well since they are going through the divorce and apparantly he took a picture of her naked with his Camera Phone for evidence, she says that she was looking up female problems online and she was checking herself just as a woman does for lumps in her breast. Now i dont mean to get gross on here, but i doubt that women check there vaginal region while on webcam for health reasons with a big sex toy lingering close by. UGH! I feel so sorry for CAP's daughter. She is the sweetest baby and her mom does and says the craziest things. There are some people who cant have kids, and she has kids and doesnt want them! WoW....

Now on to CC girl... Well CC girl and I are still friends and i chose to keep it that way because she lied to me about some things, and well this goes back to reading my blog from the beginning... I hate being lied to, and especially by a woman. SOrry ladies who read this but its true. I can brag and say that i am a good man(one of the few left) who doesnt hit,cheat,steal,disrespect and i still like flowers and mushy stuff too. I asked her if she had ever been married, and she told me no, and in reality she was going through a divorce, which makes her MARRIED and i dont do the MARRIED thing. I would feel horrible right now if we did the big thing!!! So i told her that we will remain friends and that was that..

In other news i have a friend that i constantly keep in contact with by the name of Katie. Her whole name is mary kate, but she hates that lol. Anyhoo we have been friends since 7th grade. I can remember while we were in highschool and she was really short then(not now she has grown some inches) i got on my knees and danced with her at her prom because she was listening to my belly sounds when we slow danced. She has been a great friend. She is somewht affliated with the military and she has been there with me through thick and thin. Because i am in special operations and im on the go so much, i have given her power of attorney attimes, and she has taken care of my bills and i was there for her when she had a miscarriage at 7 months. It was a really hard time for her and she suffered from that depression after baby thing. I never understood that, and i would like some personal input on it if it has happened to you. Now she is over(for the lack of better words) the depression and she has been trying to tell me something for like 6 years now, and she could never muster up enough balls to just say it. I would always hound her about saying it, and she would never give in until recently. I just told me that she has had a crush on me for years but she was too afraid to tell me. She told me that she is happy when she is around me or when i just call her and she wants to take it further. :/ For what felt like an eternity, i just held the phone.... and i said oooooooooooook. She told me that she was embarrassed, and this was the first time that she has ever been embarrassed in front of me and i was like yeah... hell i have seen you in your bra and undies before when you were like really sick and i took care of you. She said well get back to me and let me know what you think....
now i am confused like hell, but i like her as well and she does make me feel great and all of that good stuff, and i love her too. I have the kinda love for her that would allow me too sleep i nthe same bed without anything sexual going on, or to buy her flowers and candy(which i have sent for absoloutly no reason) for many years. Speaking of flowers and candy i tallied up the total amount of money spent on her since i have known her and it was freaking out of this world. I am not ashamed of it, but i have bought alot of gifts and trinkets for her. It is somewhere near 4 grand. From bracelets in germany to little hats from pakistan to cards and letters and stamps and clothes. She was the only girl that i ever picked out clothes for and i got cursed out because i got her like clothes that were too big for her hehehe... well if you have any suggestions please let me know.. see ya

Catching up

Hey guy how are you.. sorry that i havent wrote you guys in a while... I have been super busy here in this little bitty town of mckinney. I am working 15+ hours and well the instructers are giving the classroom what if you were in iraq situations, and we are telling these navy guy(because we are on a joint military base) that were were in iraq and this is what we did..lol its kinda funny. We the students are teaching the instructors. :D


Also this is a bittersweet time of the year because i had about 8 friends die kinda back to back from dec to jan 5 so it brings back alot of memories. I was in high school then, but it brings back memories. Ironically i was either the last person to talk to them,hold a personal possession orsomething like that. It is hard but i have gotten better over the past few years. We also may be going to Alaska after we leave here. Hopefully not, because im gonna freeze my ass off.

My family is doing good, and i hear that iraq is well...iraq. I listen to the news casters and i just shake my head at them telling us that we need to back out of iraq. I wont state my position about iraq and if we are right or wrong, but we are in there now, and we cant g out running now. If we did that, you guys that go to work and play in parks and just have family day and night will no longer have that. The terrorists and current "sleepers" that are in our country will activate themselves and the USA will be a iraq. So we gotta stay and get the job done.

Also i wanna get some of you good guys who have posted to my blog, and some of you who havent posted but emailed me daily a christmas gift. I think you deserve it. You made Iraq a hapier place to be. With the South park DVDs :P the candy, clothes for the iraqi kids, hats for the kids, shoes for them... it was great! I just wanna repay you guys.

Also i got a email from an iraqi kid today telling me that iraq is getting better on his side of baghdad, but he wishes that i was there because he felt safer. He says that noone gives him USA CDs, and the current guy gives him british CDS. He is happy because the guys that come around now buy "freaky freaky" and i didnt! In case you dont know, in iraq the kids and women and children sell freaky freaky or porn. I just wasnt into that... i never would buy it..lol

well i gotta head to work see ya laters.

Shooting At Carswell

Hey guys, yes i am stationed at carswell NAS and there was a shooting. Some Naval guy decided that he wanted to kill himself, and while trying to do so he managed to get his supervisor shot and a second guy who tried to save a life. We heard the shot(s) and found it odd to have gunfire coming from a facility indoors and next thing you know you have af cops marine cops and navy cops doing everything. Poor guy..life isnt bad enough to kill yourself..thats a one way ticket to hell.. We are ok though... see ya