...it could be worse...
Well, we got our off-base liberty again. If you don’t know, here on Okinawa, Marines abide by the Gold/Red card rule set by the General of the Marines in this part of the world. If you have a red card you have to be back on base by midnight, while the Gold can go on [...]
Apparently we had an earthquake last night! I didn’t really feel it, but other people on the island did. I hope this isn’t a taste of things to come.
Gerald wrote a post about the two bombs dropped in Japan during WWII and how justified it actully was, which it wasn’t. He made excellent points about how the morale of killing civilians is the exact opposite of destroying military personal. Just to throw my two cents into the matter, I think they were wrong [...]
So another typhoon is coming towards Okinawa and I couldn’t be happier! I ain’t going to put up a front and act like I don’t love when training is canceled and I get to sit in my room all day. FREAK YEA I LIKE DAYS OFF! Are you kidding me? That is probably one of [...]
Alright, so you haven’t seen any new entries because why? Because I’ve been out in the field, getting training that I’ll probably not use because I’ll be out of the Marine Corps when this MEU ( fast deploying Marine Corps unit ) gets deployed to anywhere special.
Now you’d think being grown men and women, we’d [...]
flickr: Helo Ride
You’ve all been saying to yourself, “Where the heck is this guy?” We’ll you’ll be happy yo know the photograph above should explain alot. I was training again and like many other times, we Marines don’t get computer access out in the middle of no where. Alot of planning went to shit but [...]
Being in the military you get to travel the world and taste the world. Okinawa’s cuisine is by far the best I’ve had next to Mongolian dishes that I had in Iraq. Now you too can whip up a healthy meal and surprise your friends with a vegetable they probably never tasted. Because goya is [...]
A quick lesson in the Okinawan language, Uchina-guchi, which if your not Okinawa, you call it Hogen. Before Okinawa got attached to Japan, it had its own language. Alot of the older people of Okinawa still use this language and many of the Okinawan music is sung in this language, but this is changing. These [...]
I talked about how I was going to post an entry about the people that I remember and inspired me to be who I am today. I was first going to just list them all out and how they inspired me, but now I am thinking I will just list them by a certian category. [...]
