Tag: deployment

Back Home

Been home for about a week now and I am loving it. Glad to be back with the family. I’m not so sure the family is happy that I’m back though. I’m sure we’ll learn to grow on each other once again. Well, hopefully I can take some weeks off and then get my house [...]

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Homigot Hand

Here in Pohang there is a place called Homigot. It has two hands coming out of the ground. One is at sea and the other in on land. Basicly, all of Korea comes down to witness the New Year here. When the sunrises for the first day of the year, you can see the sun [...]

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Coming Home

My time in South Korea is coming to an end and I will be returning home shortly. It is again, another blessed homecoming becuase being away from family for six months is no joke. For my wife, this is no different then when I was sent to Iraq, minus the danger. Well, for me, this [...]

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Korea

Coming to you live from the run down airport in Seoul, Korea known as Gimpo International Airport. It was replaced by one of the best airports in the world known as Incheon Airport. Oh well. Soon I’ll be out in the middle of no-where in a small base in the sticks. Woot? I think not. [...]

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WKD 3

flickr: Last WKD
Unfortunately this will be the last of the WKD feature that I served here for the past three weeks. Due to some….restrictions, I can’t really provide a full spectrum of photos for my viewers. Its not that I don’t like showing pictures of my boy, but I wanted to get a more broad [...]

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Berno’s Poem

flickr: Berno’s Poem
As you know with poems, it takes awhile to decipher the one true meaning, and sometimes, it doesn’t even have one meaning, but many. It was early, early morning when we went to the armory to get our weapons to depart to our Iraq deployment. I had a notebook that Hiromi had bought [...]

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The G

Something is coming up…another deployment. A chances came, and it caught me. MEU Service Support Group 31 is a deployment that is sought after by many Marines stationed on Okinawa and in Japan. The MEU takes you everywhere in Asia and sometimes even to as far as Iraq if needed. Thailand, Philippines, Korea, Australia and [...]

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The Fog of War

flickr: The Fog of War
What is waiting for us beyond? Oh yea, in case you didn’t know…head over to my flickr account and check out the pictures I updated. I uploaded quite a few, like 3 or 4 months worth of decent shots. Just funny stuff I guess.

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Stateside

We arrived at the airport and I was barely waking up. After a few mintues of getting our baggage out and loaded up, we headed off to our barracks. Clear, crisp air, not dry air, not war air, but cool, moist air. I liked that. Reminds me of my island. After that settles in, the [...]

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