Tag: marine

A View From A Tent

flickr: A View From A Tent
I saw this one day when I woke up from a daze because the night before it had rained all over me. Damn rain. Well, thank goodness I ain’t going back there for awhile. Thats right, out of the field, and back to my room, Luna is back! And he [...]

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Nightingale Team Training

Me doing what I do best. A bigger picture of me doing IT.

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World Trade Center (2006)

Just got back from watching the movie World Trade Center and man, it was good. I liked the cast which included Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena. Pena is from Crash and Million Dollar Baby if you don’t know and I think he did an excellent job as a co-star. I usually don’t go see movies [...]

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Retaining

If you noticed, I haven’t been writing alot about whats going on around me these past couple of days/weeks. This must mean I am either scared of writing what I am feeling or thinking, or that I’ve been too busy. Although I have been busy, I don’t ever want to stop or bite my tounge [...]

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Aged

I was looking in some old archived photos that I had from awhile back. I found this picture in there. Now, this picture was taken on the 15th of January in in the year of our Lord, 2004. I had more hair, I looked even younger, and I wore different style boots. I actully had [...]

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Prospect

You know, after a few talks and thinking over about my plan, it isn’t going to be easy to find a job here in Japan. Not after they have tons of service members to choose from with a college degree. So what am I going to do? Be a mover? Construction? Babysitter? Ahhh! Its cool. [...]

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Whoops

Marine falls though box. I like this picture because when it happened, everyone was confused, like, “What the freak?” Of course the picture was staged, but when the actual event happened, trust me, it was hilarious.

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Verdict

After many dreams and day-dreams and many thoughts about what life would be like IN the Corps, and OUT of the Corps, I have finally decided on my FINAL decision.
I can’t live a life with even the SLIGHTEST chance exist for me to go to Iraq again. I am going to EAS and no reenlistment [...]

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Godspeed

“…and for these years, you were my family…my family. and soon after, i had to say good bye. i mean, we laughed together, we cried together, we fought together…and now, now i have to leave you.”
today we had a ‘going-away’ for two very great Marines. normally, for a going-away party consist of a meeting of [...]

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