Cool Picture

I finally was able to swipe this picture from ACO's CP... ...I mean borrow. It's been sittin' there since July.

2nd Combined Arms Battalion A Company's DV visit detail with Admiral Thad W. Allen, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard.

(Don Croswhite seventh from the right)

One Year Army Blogging

November marks the one year span of my Army blog. I'm just making note of it.

Playing w/ Chem Lights

I cut open a green chem light and poured it out on my rank. Why? I was bored in the arms room.

Pup-Pup

Well Annalisa went down to the post vet while I was at work and registered the pooch. So he's officially ours. 

Asi says he looks like an old scottish man is this picture (the dog that is.)

Why Do I Serve..?

When I first joined the Army it was out a selfish need for some badge of honor, before my knees were too old to take me. When I graduated from Basic training I was told I was the tip of the spear, boots on the ground, and all that "whooah" crap. But when I get up in the morning to run in the cold I think to myself, that my wife wont be up for another 2 hours. That's why I serve. That's why I get beat up, yelled at, mop floors, and wake up way too early and get off way too late. So that my wife can sleep, and not. Don't get me wrong when I fly home for Christmas, I'll be wearing my class A's. I'm proud to be an infantryman and wear my blue cord. But in the end, I wear myself out, so others don't have to. I saw a quote in the office of the Command Seargent Major of the Los Angles M.E.P.S. and it's so perfect:

"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." - Winston Churchill

Coming home after a range