froggy

Rightious!

I take it you mean to stay in Colorado for a while?

*drools* powerbooks...

Dude, I have a compaq that I'm less than overjoyed with. It just keeps my gaming habit fed so that I'm not out hooking for a new system.

enjoy

Welcome home, bro!

Yeah, I'm in the Air Force. Try not to hold that against me. "One team, one fight" or some shit like that. Again, welcome home.

It's been a year and one day since your last journal entry.

Glad you're back from Iraq

where you been holmes?

Nothing official. I figure it's just a matter of days though.

It's not about stupidity. It's about OPSEC.

I wish that were my pooch. Each OP along the border is allowed 2 mascot/security dogs. Occasionally one escapes being spayed, and shows up pregnant at the Veterinary Clinic. We get to paly with the puppies for however long it takes to place them; this was one of them.

I hope preparing T-rats won't be too stifling for you!

Sorry about your orders getting canx'd.

How is the Springs? It is a cool town, but it kinda sucked for me when I was there, mostly cuz I was in the big Blue Zoo.

Thanks for all you do, and good luck if you get shipped out.

Huh, I lasted two days

yay! smoking is bad for you. besides, you don't want your wife to be kissing an ashtray, do you?

are you not xcleverxname in fact?

if you have some other im email it to me...

i'm on, holler at me

oh, don't worry i am not trying to muscle in on your job!

if i was in combat you guys would have a different kind of mop up to deal with. yellow puddle mop up.

anyhow, i wish there were more ways for the folks on the low end of the economic totem pole to get educated without ending up in debt. i'm not trying to say people who want to serve shouldn't, just that i wish those who signed up were people who signed up because they want to serve, not because they need the funds, or the education or whatever.

to the second point, since the original thread was about he draft, and that was my comment, i would like to figure out a way that all sectors shared the job of defending the nation.

it all boils down to the fact that i don't like it that the job of fighting for us all falls on the shoulders of the working class.

ps what is a sable round? a tank gun round of some sort?

[Edited on Jan 03, 2003]

do you ever go on aim?

i am not saying folks go into the service for big bucks, but i am saying i doubt there are a lot of soldiers you work with who passed up $100,000/year or even $50,000/year salaries to join the army.

i speculate that a lot of people sign up largely because it's a way to get your education paid for. that has been the case for the people i have met, at least.

anyway, my problem is ultimately that the people who benefit the least from the nation's prosperity (lower class families) are asked to make the biggest sacrifice to maintain the way of life we all enjoy. and i don't just mean our freedom, which i tend to feel was safer without the current joker in the big house, but oil and territory and all of that stuff.

p.s. i am going to add you as a friend, hope that's not too forward of me...

good luck! are you still sure she's not psycho?

Good times my man. Enjoy. Best of luck to you both.