I've been off active duty for a couple of weeks now (and it has felt like a lifetime of recovery and freedom), but before leaving I signed a reserve contract to continue serving in the reserves... you know, the whole "citizen soldier" thing. Anyway, I thought it would be sweet as hell to continue jumping out of airplanes once a month with copious amounts of free time for a career and personal pursuits. I called my new First Sergeant this morning to introduce myself and got both barrels of awesome news:
"We'll retrain you into a new career field if you want..." Check! Schools and a new job? Awesome.
"...and also, you're going to Afghanistan next year." Oh. okay. I haven't been there yet, so I am actually totally relieved that I'm not going back to Iraq for some notional reconstruction efforts. It also turns out that my little brother (infantry with the 101) is deploying back to Afghanistan at the same time. I'm actually going to have family over there to correspond and fuck around with. The career thing is just gonna have to wait another year.
And then I realized the tragic news that hid in-between the lines: I'm gonna have to shave my beard before I go physically report. Fuck.
In other news, my sister pet-sat this dog over the weekend:
She cracked me up every time she skittered across the wood floor. The sound of three little puppy paws followed by the "clomp" of that cast made it sound like she was wearing a high-heeled shoe on one of her feet. I will say that there are few things as emasculating as walking a tiny dog with a pink cast around the block.
Georgia grows on me more and more every day. The weather here has been so money.
"We'll retrain you into a new career field if you want..." Check! Schools and a new job? Awesome.
"...and also, you're going to Afghanistan next year." Oh. okay. I haven't been there yet, so I am actually totally relieved that I'm not going back to Iraq for some notional reconstruction efforts. It also turns out that my little brother (infantry with the 101) is deploying back to Afghanistan at the same time. I'm actually going to have family over there to correspond and fuck around with. The career thing is just gonna have to wait another year.
And then I realized the tragic news that hid in-between the lines: I'm gonna have to shave my beard before I go physically report. Fuck.
In other news, my sister pet-sat this dog over the weekend:
She cracked me up every time she skittered across the wood floor. The sound of three little puppy paws followed by the "clomp" of that cast made it sound like she was wearing a high-heeled shoe on one of her feet. I will say that there are few things as emasculating as walking a tiny dog with a pink cast around the block.
Georgia grows on me more and more every day. The weather here has been so money.
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_miked_:
Yeah... I was hoping they would like it at SG HQ. It's pretty heavily themed but... Hey, It's a good theme. I'm hoping maybe they will pull it up around Halloween since they do some stuff like that then.
chameleonbiscuit:
Some of us just weren't meant to experience mornings!