Pass The Brass

Saw the weirdest thing the other night….I was drivn down a freeway and in the center median I saw a kitten playing with a piece of paper….completely oblivious to the traffic around it….it was the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen…then I found twenty bucks.

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Tomorrow is Veteran’s Day. As the years have gone by, this has become only another, almost meaningless, holiday to many.

Veterans of the Second World War are dying at a rate of 2000 each day.

Never forget to thank them for your way of life. They paid dearly for the freedom we all enjoy.

Think of them tomorrow and thank them.

Soon, all too soon, there will be not one left for you to thank…

Nothing much I can say but thank you, you inspire me to keep on bettering myself and to do my part.

Check out Castle ARGGHHH!’s veteran’s day tribute.

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I just want to put out a public thanks to my family for being the best secret keepers of all time…..yer all fired.

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Publicity Stunt

Mkay… I dragged my drugged and temporarily one-handed body out of the hospital bed to tell ya’ll about something most important.

Carren is gonna be on national TV (and live national TV at that) to let everyone know about Project Valour-IT. She will represent me (the nerd who thought of this project), and the many people who have made this project a success.

She is going to be on “Connected coast to coast” a show run by MSNBC. Don’t know how long she’ll be on, but for the love of god, please tune in, put your hands on the top of your TV, and talk to Jebus when the show is over. The show runs from 1200-1300 (noon to one fer ya civlians out there)(and that’s eastern time) My beloved is supposed to be on around 1240, but I will rest assured that her looks, personality, and general charm will either get her on early, or the show will go into extra rounds like Rocky and the Big Ruskie in Rocky IV.

Here’s how you can help. Send this to every one you know, post it on your blog, get them to post it on theirs. One side will say it’s a failure of the gummint to not prvide this for the soldiers, others just see it as a way to help our brothers and sisters who have fallen but will be getting up. However they spin it, just get the word out.

There’s less than 18 hours to game time, so let’s get our blog on!

–Chuck

Milbloggers are a formidable chain we are……

I’m joining Team Army in a competition between branches of the service to see who can help raise the most money for Project Valour-IT (Voice-Activated Laptops for OUR Injured Troops).

If you have a paypal account, please take into consideration the sacrifices that these soldiers have given and donate a few bucks.

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My apologies to CentCom for not putting it up sooner. So here you go folks! Thanks for the heads up.

Check out CentCom’s website for a good in depth look at what’s goin on with the Forces over in the sand box. All kinds good info on the reconstruction efforts. Some good info.

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Wish me luck as I have another PT test tomorrow morn. But this one is for rillz. I’ll give everyone an update at the end of the day.

>>>This morning at 0530 hours: “Hey Sure Fire, change of plans….you’re now road gaurd.” “so no PT test?” “No, just get your gear and be out here at 0600.”

So it turns out I get my test tomorrow…..so uh….yah….dangit.

>>> UPDATE: WoOt!!! 289 out of 300 on the APFT!! Best score I’ve ever gotten!! Maxed my push ups and sit ups but fell back a bit in the run. I aint woried about the run though seeing as that is (was) my strong point and is easily recovered with some evening runs. I should be able to hit 300 soon enough. I’m freakin amped!!

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Kat in GA is workin on a little somethin to help out the troops overseas that have suffered heavy losses. Show some of that good ole heart and head over to her domain and donate a card or two…or three….or…you get the idea. These people need all the help we can give them. Be a Helpy Helper.

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So yesterday I get to go to this Newcomers Brief and listen to a couple speeches by the higher ups giving us the general mission statement of our unit. I don’t mind these things at all, you actually learn some cool stuff and it gives you the interaction you need to learn to recognize the higher ups in case you don’t see them too often. But the fun part was when it got to the Equal Opportunity portion of the class.

As the EO rep is up front he used a couple examples of “bad people” and I seemed to score pretty high up there. I was one of the two examples used to show just how real EO violations are on Fort Bragg. I can totally understand the reasoning behind this move and I don’t care at all if you use me as an example. Hell, I wouldn’t want someone getting caught up in the mess I did. So there’s no problem with using my foolishness as a lesson. What I have a problem with is just how bad he made it sound. He put me out to be one sick individual and pointed out my faults to the extreme. And to top it off, made an untrue statement about me. That’s my issue. In his using my “jokes” as an example, he put words in my mouth that made my crime look just that much worse.

When in actuality I had never used the words “kill a hadji” in my convictions,, somehow that was one of my crimes. Again I state, I have no issue whatsoever with you using my example to teach a lesson, but to make false accusations….that’s just harsh.

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So today was just one of those days. I get back from PT and I’m gettin all ready for work and I’m lookin for my beret, but I can’t find it. Crap. So I’m rippin my room apart lookin for the blasted thing and I never find it. So I run out to my automobile, hoping it’s in there from work last night….no luck. Crap again. So I call the rest of the crew I worked with last night tryin to see if anyone nabbed it on accident or anything. Still no luck! So now I’m callin up my team leader givin ‘im a heads up that I can’t find my stinkin beret. Luckily it’s not one of those “YOU WHAAAT?!?!?! START PUSHIN!!” kinda phone calls. Hehehe.

So anyway, I get to work and Im runnin around with a stinkin patrol cap (read: that normal hat that we used to wear). Luckily we were inside the whole morning and I didnt have to wear it too much. Then lunch rolls around and I’m headin out to the vehicle to go get me a new beret. As soon as I pull out of the company lot, The Beast chokes a couple times then sputters out. AH CRAP!! In the process of running around looking for my beret this morning, I had forgotten that I needed to go get gas before work. So now I’m stranded. Crapola. “It’s just one of those days for you,” says a fellow soldier. Yah, tell me about it.

So I give one of my other coworkers a call and ask if he could give me a ride to the gas station to grab a gas can to retrieve my dead vehicle. So he comes and picks me up and we go to the earest gas station which just happened to be sold out of gas cans, which meant we had to go to the other side of post and get a can from the other station. By now I’m feelin bad takin up his lunch hour by runin me around post gettin gas. Anyway, I finally get the can and get back to the car to revive the starving engine. After pooring as much gas into the tank as the can would allow, I toss the can and the remaining amount of gas into the trunk. What I thougnt to be a good seal on the can would soon prove to be my undoing.

After work, I am returning back to the barracks for my dinner break and my car now reaks of gas fumes. AARGH! There is no winning for me. So I get back to the barracks and pop the trunk to remove the can and fin that it had leaked a laundry bag in the back of my trunk and onto the base board as well. So that means my car will smell nice and pretty for a few days here. And by the second trip back to the company for extra duty, my head was pounding from the fumes. So I slammed a few asprin and got to work scrubbin the extremely destroyed floors of the company area. An entire day of dragging file cabinets and an odd assortment of desks, chairs, and locker cabinets on tile will leave a few marks, so our job tonigh was to make those marks dissappear. We did our best I can assure you, and there will definitely be a noticable difference when they walk in the door tomorow. We made sure we stipped that floor the best we could to get those scuffs off. All cleanings final.

Oh by the way, tonight was my last night of groundation, so I finally get my freedoms back. I just wanna say thanks to all those other “bad people” who helped me scrub floors and rake leaves. You guys definitely kept me from being as bored as I was that first week by myself. Also, I think I made a pretty good friendship throughout the week, so I didn’t walk away from this experience empty handed. He even went as far as to suggest I come over some time to have a few beers….*wipes tear from eye* Now if that isn’t bonding I don’t know what is. And being who I am…and not getting out very much, I can’t say I’ve ever had anyone tell me that. So that was cool.

Oh and another thing. I’m getting a little black book together for everytime an NCO calls me a name. Collateral…..that’s all I gotta say. Oh and the encouragements are a great incentive. Don’t think I’m all hurt and broke over this…it’s just part of the “Army Game”. Pretty similar to that one card game…oh what was it’s name…I think it started with the name of an animal and ended with it’s excrement, but I’m not too sure…I have a very fickle mind sometimes. And that was a joke….just in case anyone wants to try to kick me out of the Army for being crazy….cuz I aint.

Oh and I will be drinking this weekend….cuz I can.

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