Tag: navy

While On Ship

It’s windy when you’re going 18 knots at midnight.
Without the moon it’s hard to find the line between the sky and the ocean.
You can hear the wave’s crashes but where they hit you can’t pinpoint.
The noise is immense but it becomes soothing after awhile.
*sigh* I am not cut out for this ship life thing,
I really [...]

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Ship Log Part 3

Just not to confuse anyone but these entries are from my first few weeks on ship. Guess what? I am back on ship for another mission. I can’t talk about it, but just know that I only got to spend a few hours with Hiromi when we ported in Okinawa. Now I am back at [...]

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Ship Log Part 2

Ship log – Monday
Losing count of the days so you’ll have to resort to a calendar to figure out how many nights have gone by without you noticing. If your one of the few Marines that showers every night then you will know the number of nights because the pain that the high pressure showers [...]

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Ship Logs Part 1

When I was on ship, I would write from time to time on my computer. I couldn’t release them yet because we were still on ship, but now that we are here, I can. I will post up two per day. I only have 6 so without futher ado, behold ship life from my eyes…
Ship [...]

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From The PI

So now I am blogging from yet another country in the Asia territory and let me tell you, this place somehow reminds me of Mexico. The Philippines is a nation that for about some 35 odd years was under control of the United States. At least that is what I think, and you’ll just probably [...]

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Marine Fights For Our Title

I have to quote this “prayer” from this writer at military.com. Seems like a certian Chairman Warner is trying to pass an act that would change the title of the Secretary of the Navy to the Secretary of the Navy and Marine Corps which in the public eyes, would make us, Marines, seem equal to [...]

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