It's not everyday that you realize that all of that time that your parents spent training you to use a western style toilet is useless. And that there is such things as a proper and polite way to eat with chopsticks. Oh, and you will probably need a visa to enter mainland China. Because they really will turn you away at the border.
Headed back to Hong Kong soon, with the glories of English signs, western toilets and uncensored Internet access.
Expect pictures.
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
- Techno
- 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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1 comment:
Yeah, that's the problem with communism. Great theory, fucked up practice. And no one can really attest to it because they won't let you in to see it. You ought to check out Korea while you're in the area, I have a whole mess of friends there these days.
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