Survived the FOB, I qualified on my M16, and all is mostly well.
Sorry, I had more to say but I'm a little pressed for time.
Ate mais, I promise!
They asked for volunteers, so I volunteered. I deployed and spent a year in the sandbox. I came home. The Army decided I was too broken to serve any longer and gave me temporary medical retirement. I'm a civilian again and married right back in. My husband is gearing to deploy. In the meantime, I have a strange love-hate relationship with the Army. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't.
About Me
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- I'm a contradiction all by myself. Soldier and student. Stargazer and computer geek. Boots and music. Paper pusher and globetrotter. It all works out in the end.
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A bit of history...
There was a call for volunteers to deploy in Spring of 2006. I volunteered, was selected, passed the screening process, and was sent to reclassification training to go from being a bandsman to a human resource specialist. After graduation, I was home for roughly a month. I met the rest of my new unit right before we were sent to mobilization training. Once validated, we were sent overseas in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
I left university, quit my job, dumped my foreign boyfriend, and said a few very painful goodbyes. But I don't regret it one bit.
In early August, I was MEDEVAC'd out of the desert. My unit was just a few weeks away from going home. Now my only job is to get better. The irony is that they returned to their homes before I did.The Army has offered me disability and temporary retirement pay. I'm taking it. Bye bye combat boots.
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- I think I can -- LIVE
- my own worst enemy
- still miss you - written on 25 August 2006
- These boots are killing me! - written on 25 August...
- Pain - written on 24 August 2006
- Dear Fifi, I miss you.
- Mother Army and Home
- still alive -- LIVE
- going out to the FOB, for real
- written on 12 August 2006
- yet another quickie
- written on 10 August 2006
- hug -- August 8
- a lua me chama -- August 4
- written on August 4
- quick update
- just another number
- eek -- LIVE
- bad day -- LIVE
- oops -- LIVE
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