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Been a while since I've visited this site.

Quite a bit has changed from the last blog, for anyone that cares to read.

My unit, 173rd Airborne Brigade, finally deployed to Afghanistan. It'll be a while before we're all organized and sent out to our FOBs.

It's hot, damn hot, and I'm in good spirits. It may be a 15 month deployment, but my moral...
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Why do I post? No one will read this, let alone care. I guess it's just for me now.

I love my boys. We're medics. Our soldiers look to us to keep them healthy and alive. I love my job and the opportunities I'm afforded because of it. But I hate this damn unit.

I hate that it's constantly bringing us down. Forcing way too...
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Losing a wireless signal on my router makes me cry like a little school girl.

I never have time to set up my internet.

What is this laughter, what is this delight, forever burning with desires as you are? Enveloped in darkness as you are, will you not look for a lamp?

I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful thing. But now, house builder, I have found you out. You will not build me...
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We fight our country's battles.

Hardly anyone helps us fight our own battles. Except for each other.

Quite a few of our own battles are fought with an empty bottle of booze in our hands. Sometimes two empty bottles. Lately it's been around four or five.

Holidays away from home will do that to you.

Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm. He said:
"Who is this that darkens my counsel
with words without knowledge?

Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.

"Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.

Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?...
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Ever have one of those night were you just don't want to sleep?! I feel like an idiot when they hit. I'm tired as fuck but I just can't bring myself to let my head hit the pillow. I know as soon as I do I'll be out like a light. Off to dreamland, which is usually quite pleasant (except last night when I...
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Imagine that you live for 90 years.

Most people live until they\'re about 71, 72 years of age. Some people pop off in their early to mid 50s if they really fuck themselves up but lets say for the sake of argument that you live to 90.

Multiply that by 365; you get 32,850 days. That\'s it, your entire life. Less...
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