Goals

Everyone has goals, finish college, lose weight, thing of that nature, my goal is to one day have a personal library with my top 100 books all in leather bound.

Things I Learn on Deployment

So I have decided to list things I learn over the course of my deployment. Check back often to see more.
1. Learn to shave a man's back he'll purr like a walrus.
2. If the office is all guys a 12 hour game of battlefarts is inevitable.
3. The stupidest things that make an illogical debate, will somehow turn in to an intellectual argument usually with graphs and figures.
4. I don't know who Wagner is but he is a very popular Marine, usually named in a sentance containing a homoerotic sexual act, followed by someone writing the statement that Wagner is a boot, as seen in almost every portajohn, smoke shack, and bus stop.
5. People will have sex while deployed, almost everytime it will be in a darker area on base. The people that are dumb about it will obviously get caught and also will have intercourse a month after arriving here, so the higher ups will not take pity on them since it hasn't been 6 months or longer and there shouldn't be explainable sexual tension.
6. the male stages of boredom are as such, 1. Stupid comments 2. Singing songs by 90's boy bands 3. Genital mutilation
7. When having to use a portajohn for a number 2 be sure to lay down a layer of toilet paper to prevent splashbacks.
8. Navy Showers while annoying are nice when the water is cold.
9. When having a morale drive in your office you will always watch the movies that are on even if they are ones you wouldn't want or care to see in the states.
10. If you order something useless from amazon it will arrive here in a week, if its something you really need to use or have, it will not arrive for a month or longer.
11. Do not use a portajohn right after it has been cleaned, it is a wet mess and will in make yourself your cammies and your rifle wet.
12. An RCO will fit on the tactical rail of a nerf gun, and be about 15 clicks off
13. The one most crucial piece of gym equipment is the mirror.
14. Flash games hidden within excel documents are the savior of midshift boredom.
15. Malaria pills give the most realistic dreams; although some envolve your fireteam mates sawing on a table while your fending off two robots with buzz saw arms.
16. Your AC will not always work, learning to be comfortable sleeping in little to no clothes till it gets fixed is a must... although First Sergeant probably doesn't appreciate this when doing room inspections.
17. Protien shakes after working out create some of the worst gas ever.
18. People who work days will always have a game night on saturdays, playing games like chicken army, axis and allies, and some game that no one has ever heard of.
19. Deployments are the easiest way to obtain free movies and tv show seasons.
20. If you try to make sun brewed tea in a water bottle people will think that you urinated in it even when the tea bag is still in the bottle.
21. Butterscotch krimpets are delicious when frozen.
22. While deployed it is natural to fall into a deep sleep, it is even more natural to freak out when a controlled detonation happens causing your room to shake.
23. Chickens have two sets of wings according to the DFAC there is Big Chicken Wing and Little Chicken wings.
24. There are many phantoms on deployment, there is the phantom that takes a number two in the showers and there is the phantom that clogs up the urinal part of a portajohn making it pool up with urine.
25. Barracks cuts while completely unauthorized in the states are completely allowed on deployment and are a great way to save 5.25 every week.

Deployment

Thanks to deployment i can no longer eat a lot of greasy foods they make me sick. Oh and i lost a turtleback so now my rank stabs me in the chest when i'm walking

odd dream

so today i have a snow day from work so i can sleep in but instead i'm awake at 430 am because of a weird dream whoo go my brain for presenting an image in my head that was so weird it caused me to wake up kudos

trying to start a journal

So about my day well my fiance has had a cold since yesterday, no big deal right? well to my imagination it can be. when i found out at work that she was going to the clinic to get checked out my mind started to wander and of course it went worst possible scenario. what if it happens to be pertussis what if she gets admitted into the hospital? i spent my whole lunch break on facebook with her mother asking her what the doctors are saying, like she would really know word for word since she was at work 2 hours away from the clinic. during the afternoon i was in a brief one that talked about usual stuff suicide prevention, safe driving, and electrical outlet safety (sounds kinda dumb, who doesn't know how to use an outlet safely? well Marines don't) i had my phone out during the entire brief checking it every two minutes to see if i had gotten a message with an update on my fiances' health. It crossed my mind i told this woman that CF is something she has but it doesn't define who she is and i can say that it is still true, either away or together the fact that both her and her brother have CF doesn't come up in a thought, its in the back of my head but its something my mind doesn't take much notice to, but when she gets sick or i get a negative update about her brother it scares me. It certainly isn't to the point of me wanting to run away but it honestly does scare me being 17 hours away from here and even further away from her brother. It isn't just because i love her most of the time it makes me wonder about the future, am i going to be able to find a job with health insurance that can cover her meds and doctor visits, will i be able to provide the right kind of care for her when she is sick and home. even for her brother i get scared he has become like my younger brother, the kind of guy that you try and do your best so he can look up to you and so you wont let him down. knowing the fact that both of them could get an infection and need to be hospitalized while i am not near them makes me feel like i can't do my part to help a loved one out, like i am letting them down. the moral of my drawn out lesson on me worrying and letting my mind wander and become frightened is that this evening she found out that she has the flu its not pertussis its not the black lung, its the flu. Had i spent the whole amount of time i used worrying and instead used to pray and ask for Gods healing on her, i would have been helping to make her better, i mean after all He is the ultimate healer. but i also wouldn't of had this burden of worry going on all afternoon. so with that being said blog reading community of the world wide web, do you have fears? burdens? doubt? or worries? bring them to the Lord, "Come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."-Matthew 11:28-30

the genius that is me

yesterday i spent all day excited about going kayaking for pt. why? because its probably one of the funniest things we ever do, but while i was out in the boat i flipped it being stupid and sure enough lost my wallet it is now in the bottom of a river so good bye to my debit and my credit card my drivers license my military id my humvee drivers license my extra cash its just awesome

gripe about the Marine Corps

Sometimes i wonder about the organization i signed a contract to join. Lets take officers while their leadership is sometimes right on other times it makes me wonder, how does making a visio diagram on where every telephone port and outlet is down to the inch help in mission accomplishment? or how spending most of the units budget on new furniture is a great idea when the tools needed to do our job is far less important? then there is uniform inspections if my uniform fit two months ago why would it not fit now? then there is pt, don't get me wrong pt is a good thing for an organization that is supposed to fight, but when adding excessive weight repeatedly is not going to make you better it is going to put more strain on your joints making them wear out faster, considering how many Marines complain about knee pains or injuries isn't that pointing to something?