Posts Tagged ‘military’

In the spirit of forgetting good blog fodder

I’ve forgotten more blog post ideas than I’ve written in the last month or two. It’s sad really … I’ll say “I am SO blogging that” and am all hot to trot before getting side-tracked by something else and then eventually completely forgetting what it was I had wanted to blog about in the first place.

/sigh

Today, though, I have a shit-load of a list to pour out on paper. This is what happens when I don’t make a note when ..read more

My Army family and learning how it works

I have a couple of friends who I know might be offended that I had this major drama situation today, where I needed someone to talk to BADLY but I didn’t call them. Instead, I called on my army family.

I was incoherent in my distress, blabbing about the chain of command and orders and family members and mandatory training… yet I was rational enough to think that unless I called someone who could understand my blathering, I would just work ..read more

Combat games and war games … off to war we go

Yesterday morning, I watched my husband get ready for his first day of “Road to war” training. As usual, he got into full uniform (ACUs they are called) and then grabbed his armor and put that on too. That armor is heavy as shit, let me tell you. When he first put it together, he allowed me to try and lift it and that was a total disaster – I don’t think I budged the thing 2 inches off the ..read more

How I went from a “Creature of Habit” to being a Military Spouse

Having lived in the same house with my parents for all my childhood (and some of my adult) years was a solid foundation for me. It gave me that one thing in my life that I could always count on. Home would always be right there at Dukharan Avenue and if all else failed, I could pack up my meagre belongings and head home for Mom and Dad to help me get back on my feet.

In fact, that is exactly ..read more

The Fort Hood Shootings from a different perspective

I know a lot of people are waiting for me to say something about the shootings that occurred here on Thursday afternoon. Well, maybe not a lot of people. The problem with my thoughts on the shootings is that they are not what you might expect from someone this close to it.

From the moment I heard about the shooting – and I will admit that I knew about it soon after it happened and before the majority of the post ..read more

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