That’s it.  As of tomorrow I am off to my school and then Alaska.  I’ll be back here for about a week to finish clearing housing, but for all intents and purposes I am now “en route” to Alaska. I wanted to give everyone a quick update on…
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Today was a great day.  It was my last duty day in this unit.  Monday I begin the clearing process, then its off to flight school and Alaska!  I’ll be going in for PT (even though I don’t have to) and to give advice if needed since my replacement won’t…

Its official!  The word is in and we are headed to Alaska, in the winter no less. That’s the Army for you.  Take a family used to 100+ degree weather and 8 months pregnant, then move them to -40 degree weather and have the soldier almost immediately deploy again.

Lately one of our big projects has been teaching Combat Lifesaver to as many people in the battalion as possible.  Its a priority of the Battalion’s, but they tend to think that a CLS can replace a Medic. This training could mean the difference between life and death for a…

Its gotten pretty busy with teaching Combat Lifesaver and First Responder, coordinating lanes training, ranges, and just the everyday <em>“Hoo-ha”</em> of garrison existence.  Just a couple of things worth noting.

I received an interesting piece of mail today, the annual Army Housing Survey.  Its a little survey asking about how we like on-post housing and our experiences with customer service, service calls, and quality.  Needless to say, my cardboard project housing received very poor scores. 

I made it home Friday night. After a couple of weeks of 12 hour days, needles, trauma lanes, and applied tourniquets, I am a little battered but the better for it.  Although ours was a shortened version of the course designed for soldiers fresh off deployment, all the good stuff…

<em>This particular dream occurred about a month before I came home.  Now that the holiday is over and the superstitious deja vu that accompanies strange dreams cannot occur, I decided it was safe to relate. The dream hasn’t recurred at all, but it has sort of stuck around my subconscious…

So I have made it home again.  We arrived back a few days ago and I have been spending all my time enjoying my family and catching up on all the stuff that I have missed.  Its kind of surreal right now.  My mind and body is on one set…

If you haven’t guessed by now, updates may be few and far between for the next month or so.  Why? Because I am getting ready to leave this God Forsaken country, and access to the internet is getting scarce. So please bear with me and I’ll…

Due to a complete lack of anything interesting to write about, I bring you the boredom that is my current situation.... We are definitely winding down.  My CHU is packed and I am just waiting on word to move to the temporary billets. We have to get Connexes…

Its here… almost!  My time in this hellish wasteland is almost at an end!  Last night my internet was cut off, and I have my lower priority baggage packed and ready to be loaded for shipment.  Soon we will be moving to temporary housing, then comes RIP/TOA!  I can’t wait…

So, I have been healing up for the past week or so.  I have been working at our BAS, and off the patrol schedule.  Its been a good time, and I have been really productive.  I live for patient care and I have treated more people in the past 8…

So I’ve been in the hospital for the last few days with what is called a Non-Battle Injury. In other words, I was not wounded in battle, I had an urgent healthcare matter that required surgery.  I got a whirlwind tour of the medical evacuation system for Iraq and Kuwait…

Ok, so I guess its time to stop the freakish ramblings and give up some more ”<em>Tales of Hell</em>.” If you read my little post from the other day, then you’ll realize that not much has been going on that hasn’t been going on here for months.  There just seems…

I just don’t seem to be that motivated to write anything lately.  I don’t know if its the fact that not much new is going on, or whether I just don’t have energy anymore.  I read other milblogs for ideas, but new material is hard to come by here.  Its…

Its been a few days since I last posted, but we have been really busy.  Our re-deployment date is visible on the planning calendars now and the command has decided that we need to ramp up operations.  Something about the bad guys knowing when we are due to leave, so…

We went out on patrol the other night down in the South of our AO.  We went out on a more or less “feel good” mission.  The kind of mission where you interact a lot with the people, get to hand out toys to kids, eat Iraqi Chow (<em>which I…

I just returned from about three days (<em>I lose track of time here</em>) of continuous patrols and raids, so this post will be brief.  However, I thought it important to share with the handful of readers I have, and maybe a few others what our enemy is really made of. …

I am so sore today.  We had a diagnostic APFT yesterday morning followed by a long day of classes and NCOPD.  After a few hours to ourselves (long enough to eat and get a shower), it was time to hit the trail. We went on some raids with…

Its been a busy week.  The raids and engagements never seem to cease.  Here I thought things were supposed to slow down as your redeployment date neared!  I have come to the conclusion, though, that one of our IA commanders hunts insurgents like people in the US hunt deer.  He…

Sorry its been a bit since I left a post, but life here just kind of seems to drag on.  The days seem to be getting longer now that our redeployment date is nearing.  The days themselves are slightly cooler, but thats only because the sun can’t sear the desert…

Guess which one won?  This is what happens when you use a Dell Inspiron as target practice during Reflexive fire.  I dug a round out of the hard drive for the owner when we all got done…

Yes, I have sold my soul to the US Government.  I re-enlisted.  I got a buttload of cash and a Flight Medic slot (<em>the very last class slot for 2008 it turns out</em>).  We will soon be mostly out of debt, and possibly able to take a real vacation when…

I managed to get my watch fixed.  Can you believe that our PX actually had the right watch battery in stock?  Such an obscure item, and it was actually on the shelves, unlike such things as USB Sticks or socks.  Had to pay with my new fangled