Yep, still breathing, still here, and this blog isn’t dead.  I am just really, really busy with routine garrison crap.  Can’t get caught up no matter what I do.  I would have posted some photos of the cool Alaskan Vistas I get to see from the air, but all…
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The fudge is made, the cookies are out, and the kids are in bed.  Now we are just waiting on the jolly red fellow to make an appearance.  To remember those still overseas tonight, I am…

I finally made it home!  I have been a home a little over a week and its amazing how fast “real life” comes crashing back in.  I spent the first few days just getting in-processed back into the states.  Since I ended up an an individual re-deployer, I managed to…

So I have been dealing with re-deployment issues for the last two weeks.  What a headache.  The right hand <em>never</em> talks to the left, let alone the feet.  One minute everything is on track, scheduled and everybody is aware.  Thirty seconds later, you call back and no one knows anything…

So I finished up my last <em>scheduled</em> duty cycle this morning.  No more flying MEDEVAC in Iraq for this tour.  We are almost done for this round.  The new replacement unit is on the ground, they…

So I have been thinking a lot about the position I have been told I will be filling here shortly.

Here I sit in the dark at almost 1am in my little 4 foot by 6 foot space.  I am under 2 layers of cover due to the overactive ECU, and my somewhat stinky PT clothes dangle 12 inches over my head because thats the only hook I have in…

Eight Years have passed, and all I can still say is <em>“We will Never Forget!”</em> Once again, I am linking to my 9/11 EMS Memorial.  I chose to focus on the Paramedics and EMTs lost that day because so little has ever been covered concerning them.  They have been lost…

I was promoted to Staff Sergeant today.  I was selected for one of a handful of coveted Battlefield Promotions. 

On August 13, 2007 I lost a friend to a roadside IED. Two other soldiers were also lost that day.  I knew them all, but the loss of my friend left an indelible mark behind. 

So this morning I went into our food locker for my daily bowl of Apple Jacks or Frosted Flakes, but all that was left was Special K (ugh!).  I was actually pretty hungry as breakfast has become the defacto start to my day lately.  Next to the cereal was the…

So I did a lot of “work” the last couple of weeks on the back end of this site.  I was having some issues with duplicate entries in search engines, being flagged in Google and the like.  It all had to do with leaving old templates in place so there…

So, I haven’t posted in the past couple of weeks, because there hasn’t been anything to post about.  Things have been relatively quiet which is a good thing.  We have had MEDEVACs, but nothing really exciting to write about.  I have basically been living my daily life. 

I tried to write this long post about patriotism and honor, but I couldn’t get it right.  So I’ll stick to the basics and hope it comes out right. I sent flags I flew during medevac missions to a few friends, family, and organizations I used to belong to.  I…

A reminder of why we observe Memorial Day.

So, its official.  We are expecting our third baby! It seems that my R&R period was a little more productive than I thought. We were a little surprised, but given our history with the month of April we shouldn’t have been.  I should actually be home to see this…

My R&R will be ending soon, and I will be returning to my daily routine in the sandbox.  R&R creates special opportunities for quality time so I don’t worry so much about money, which is nice.

Here I sit, in <em>MY</em> living room, laptop in hand, relaxing a bit.  Yes, I have made it to my mid-tour leave!  I made it home a few days ago and have done a lot of things since then, not even really seeing my house except to sleep.  The family…

I was perusing my older journal entries tonight and I came across this.  Its an older article dating back to 2005.  I was considering re-enlisting at that time and coming back in as a flight medic.  Since that post I have re-joined the army, been to Iraq twice,…

Would you believe this blog has passed the seven year mark?  That’s right, I started this place way back in 2002.  Its gone through many iterations from small blogger site to a fully integrated CMS on its own domain.  Its still moving forwards after all these years, chronicling the…

I have been quietly reflecting on a lot the last few weeks.  I re-connected with a few old friends and it got me to thinking.  Two of them are doctors now.  Several are still doing exactly what they were doing back when, and some have moved on to other things.…

I got to thinking, I can tell people what its like to fly over hostile cities and try to keep an eye out for the bad guy with a missile or some other nefarious means to shoot me down, but can they really relate to what I am saying? Especially…

So what have I been up to since I got here?  A lot of flying, and a lot of patient transport.  Its a completely different experience this time than last time.  I am usually back in my own bed at night, missions don’t go on for hours and hours without…

I have set foot on the place where civilization began.  Where the Sumerians and Babylonian ruled.  Where Hammurabi’s Code was written, and where the wheel was invented.  The place is known as

I have been waiting now for 12 days.  Waiting for what?  Anything.  I have gotten a few flight hours, but I have no real mission here.  I am supposed to move forward to another FOB, but we keep getting weathered out, or something else happens and I can’t go.  I…