Driver and I are going to see Wolf off tonight, and it's quite a sad thought. At lunch we sat in the sun, munching on pizza, enjoying each other's company. The relationship the three of us have is wonderfully strange and strangely wonderful. Wolf will be missed.
If it wasn't for being in the Army, being over here in the desert, the three of us would never have met. It's funny how Mother Army throws a bunch of people together and you seek out the ones you want to spend time with. And it's not nessicarily people from the same walk in life. Wolf, Driver and I are all from very different parts of the country and have very different backgrounds. We all found each other by accident, bumping around in day-to-day life here. At home, in the States, it's likely that it never would have happened.
Just amazing.
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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