Week of Ranges

The Insanity Ensues!?!! SAW and part of M2 Range down, M2 again tomorrow, I'm busy so no Mk19  on Thurday for me, then M4 Range on Friday, Scouts just became a Detail job monger once again... Then again the Benny Hill theme is the offcial convoy theme for my guys...

EIB and other stuff

Been busy and tired, so today;

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
  - Oscar Wilde

9/11 and other stuff

7 Years ago I was awaken by my mother when the first tower was hit, I thought it was some prank gone wrong, then the second and the pentagon. By the end of my day at school I was more determined to join the Army as I saw others in my class in shock and just sidelining themselves. I took action because others didn't.

6 years ago I was a few weeks from graduation from Basic being marched out to one of the parade grounds for the 1st memorial it struck me that unconventional warfare was near, as the drills were some what "nicer" to us then normal from accounts I've taken from previous cycles.

When I was in recruiting it upset me even more as I saw students and other citizens forgot what patriotism was and what they had showed in the following months of the attack. I started seeing sheep. At least my maverick ways helped pave a new light at the local City College, being that I've never seen combat then and now the uninformed students stopped the Vietnam war

 stereotype of soldiers and apologized to me when they sat down and listened to me and I listened to their side and brought in some Iraqi war vets and some of the refugees and their light in the matter. Better yet, the only people that disliked me were some of the upper middle class parents whom led a privileged life and refused to understand that I was one of the same and the code pink, and such groups. Then again I've had my times when I had to hold back like the time Sen Kerry had his botched joke right across the street from my office at Pasadena City College. This then turned my distaste toward Democrats as they became more socialist and populist. All I ask is that we stop being ignorant, bias and one-sided, these are few of the key things that the old worldists dislike about us and its 70 years of evolution has spread like an epidemic and now we are acting like Big Brother trying to cleanse what we had created. War is unloved but necessary evil and with no war there is no peace and with peace there is war. Cause and effect can ever end and always needs balance. And I am Going SiX plus years still statesided.

btw, Step Into Liquid is a great surfing documentary.

The Battery from the truck from the last post.

"The reason why the terminals don't fit... Private... is because the connection melted when you shorted the circuit you idiot!" - anonymous cohort.

idiots w/ HMMWVs...

reasons why you don't let a private drive with another private... out of view they drive straight thru an area even Bradleys avoid, (loose clay like sand when it rains...) pulled it out with the winch from my Truck then tried jumping it, which failed as the connections on the truck displayed above had mested its connections and water in the block. The Driver was warned but says he never recalled being told. Privates...

Bloggersphere gone wild....

And so it continues... drop it!

I have done some searching and the Chair for San Mateo County's Republican Party is a woman. I don't think sexism is a card here but then fear drives people to say and write things to vet and cause a commotion. If it weren't for the internet most opinions were kept to the local area, now people can attract attention anywhere. Geraldine Ferraro did it and the slander was far less insane. Might as well play Mr. Mom, Society now is more open then what these so called liberal bloggers are vetting, if all they should be praising if they are the progressive people that they think they are. Ego is a killer. Change does weird things everyone forgets after they've done things for a while.

I could go further in this debate, I know better. I serve the Government, therefore I do as told. If you don't like it, there are civil ways to convey your point(s). Arguments stir anger, anger clouds judgement.

Be smart. Read and understand the points of view prior to coming to a judgement.

BE YOURSELF!

Otherwise drop this Asinine blasphemy about Gov. Palin kids.

I am still conservative who is a Republican but I've always believed in Country First over my own views. As the Army saying, "Army First Family Always.".

Have a great Day!

"Fear leads to anger, Anger leads to hate, Hate leads to Suffering."  - Yoda

Comment if you want, I serve so those who want their voice heard can still do so unlike some other places that still censor. Apparently some of my Youtube videos have become battlegrounds for peoples opinions, and as weird as it seems, I'd choose Iaido or Kendo over Army Combatives.