To all my friends here: All is well, and I'm sorry I couldn't contact anyone. In fact, it's only by luck that I'm getting a chance to log in this once. 
All is well, and I'm still in one piece. I'm hoping to be here until late July or even late September, to help some buddies out. The job started dull, but picked up pace...
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All is well, and I'm still in one piece. I'm hoping to be here until late July or even late September, to help some buddies out. The job started dull, but picked up pace...
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Well, I'm back. If you don't feel like a long, sentimental (and at one point rather left-side-of-the-ball-park) journal, I'd skip this one if I were you.
Last week, Tuesday to be exact and 24 hours before I was ready to ship out, I found out that my Grandmother (from Greece), passed away.
I didn't show up to the States until 88, when I was 12...
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Last week, Tuesday to be exact and 24 hours before I was ready to ship out, I found out that my Grandmother (from Greece), passed away.
I didn't show up to the States until 88, when I was 12...
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max16characters:
Hey man, i hope things are going as well as can be expected over in Iraq. Keep safe and i wish you all the best out there. And if you ever find yourself back in ROK, and by ever i mean within the next 10 months, drop me a line and i'll buy you quite a few at Polly's (though it's not my fault if it leaves you with a massive hangover the next day haha!)
Wow, this past month has been rather rough. Rough enough, at any rate, that I didn't even really feel like updating this journal. I think I'm just going to vent for venting's sake, so I'm sorry if I come off rambling/incoherent.
1) Honesty. I like to think that people appreciate this. I know I appreciate people being honest with me, so I try to be...
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1) Honesty. I like to think that people appreciate this. I know I appreciate people being honest with me, so I try to be...
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corvinus:
Hello Phoebus,
Hope the hair gel mutiny works out well.
I picked up a really cool book about a week ago. I had gone to the bookstore looking to buy "Greek Gods, Human Lives", but then I saw something else: "Greek Religion", by Walter Burkert.
I don't know how interested you are in the religious views of the Ancients...it is something I find very fascinating.
Evidently this book is considered a classic on the subject, with good reason too.
All right, take it easy
Adios
P.S.
I hope your New Year works out, and I pray you will avoid any and all "work related injuries".
Hope the hair gel mutiny works out well.
I picked up a really cool book about a week ago. I had gone to the bookstore looking to buy "Greek Gods, Human Lives", but then I saw something else: "Greek Religion", by Walter Burkert.
I don't know how interested you are in the religious views of the Ancients...it is something I find very fascinating.
Evidently this book is considered a classic on the subject, with good reason too.
All right, take it easy
Adios
P.S.
I hope your New Year works out, and I pray you will avoid any and all "work related injuries".
pauillac:
I responded to a couple of your questions in the Abu Ghraib thread. I recommend Seymour Hersh's new book : Chain of Command.
I think it would intrigue you.
Watch out for the smokes - it's a fucker of a habit to kick once you're hooked.
I think it would intrigue you.
Watch out for the smokes - it's a fucker of a habit to kick once you're hooked.
I just returned from Avon Park, Florida, again, having completed this year's competition for our Group. Let me just say that I would much rather bust my ass in the field, running, rucking, jumping, climbing, etc., than being the guy who has to evaluate and grade the competitors. The hours aren't necessarily tougher, and running/evaluating events isn't so stressful a job as to make...
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nephares6:
Please add me to the group. Army, Jan 2000 - Jan 2004. (E-4)
Currently finishing B.A., then Army OCS, hopefully.
It sounds like your holiday season has been quite exciting. Good for you.
Currently finishing B.A., then Army OCS, hopefully.
It sounds like your holiday season has been quite exciting. Good for you.
hussein:
have you ever considered writing a real blog on geopolitics/military issues? you're an excellent writer with access and insights that the rest of us don't have. or would your current gig preclude doing that?
Well, first things first. I took a bunch of people off of my "Friends" list, and if this includes you, then please don't take it too personally. I just figured that, if we don't interact at all, there's really no point for our respective names to be showing up in our pages.
That having been said...
Sometime tomorrow I'll find out if I can go...
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That having been said...
Sometime tomorrow I'll find out if I can go...
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whitewidow:
Fender bender!!! Are you O.K??????
What kind a field exercise did you go on?
If you need a medic let me know.
Kisses
What kind a field exercise did you go on?
If you need a medic let me know.
Kisses
whitewidow:
hee hee hee - must be the fact that I am blitzed right now that I didn't catch the slang. But the offer still stands k?
Kisses
Kisses
OK, the trip to Florida was different than advertised, but I figured as much when I saw that the tickets getting cut for us were for Orlando. I can't really say I recommend Sebring or Avon Park to anyone interested in more than heavy amounts of drinking at a small number of bars and "nightclubs." On the other hand, if off-key Country Music Karaoke is...
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dead_ringer:
monday PM then.
scopitone6248:
I think the amount of things the game gets right far outweighs the areas in which it falls short.
Does nothing please you?! Seriously though, what would you put in lieu of the Λ and the helmet?
Does nothing please you?! Seriously though, what would you put in lieu of the Λ and the helmet?
Well, let's see what happened lately:
On the bright side, I found out I'll be gone all next week on a training trip near Panama City, FL. Not bad, considering I'll be collecting about $100-120 a day for per-diem. Making money while getting out of office work is always good. Apparently I'll be "validating" (testing?
) our Group's scary new obstacle course (for competitions, etc.),...
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On the bright side, I found out I'll be gone all next week on a training trip near Panama City, FL. Not bad, considering I'll be collecting about $100-120 a day for per-diem. Making money while getting out of office work is always good. Apparently I'll be "validating" (testing?
) our Group's scary new obstacle course (for competitions, etc.),... Read More
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whitewidow:
Why thank you, but the ones that I am putting on my page as we speak are bound to scare someone 
Chow
Chow
gregorious:
Army Veteran, served during Desert Storm (87-91).
Only a minor update...
I got the USB cable I needed for my camera finally!
I finally got to download all my pictures unto my computer, and now have two new folders of pics from Greece and Korea. Nothing sensational or crazy, but I think they're nice shots of the places I visited.
Work is really getting to me. I'm a year away from my...
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I got the USB cable I needed for my camera finally!
I finally got to download all my pictures unto my computer, and now have two new folders of pics from Greece and Korea. Nothing sensational or crazy, but I think they're nice shots of the places I visited.
Work is really getting to me. I'm a year away from my...
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dragonchylde:
hehe it is kinda hard to do a drooling sound huh? but you are right I frigging love japanese steakhouses.
narcissus:
I wanna play that game!
Anyone else think it's a little weird that Colin Farrell is playing Alexander the Great?
Anyone else think it's a little weird that Colin Farrell is playing Alexander the Great?
Well, I've been meaning to update my journal for sometime now, but I was hoping to have other than work stuff to post.
Unfortunately, I still can't find a USB cable for my digital camera, so most of the pictures I wanted to upload here remain inaccessible to me.
So let's see. What's new?
I was in Savannah for a couple of days during a...
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Unfortunately, I still can't find a USB cable for my digital camera, so most of the pictures I wanted to upload here remain inaccessible to me.
So let's see. What's new?
I was in Savannah for a couple of days during a...
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yummygoodness:
yaaaaaaaaa 
admiral_pants:
31U stationed at Ft. Wainwright looking to join the sg military group. Need any more info?
Well, it looks like I'm back in NC for the time being. For at least 3 more months anyways.
Travelling was great, though I'm glad I came back from Korea when I did, as I probably spent a little too much money there on cabs, hotel rooms, partying with old friends, etc.
Right now, the number 2 most frustrating thing is not having a USB...
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Travelling was great, though I'm glad I came back from Korea when I did, as I probably spent a little too much money there on cabs, hotel rooms, partying with old friends, etc.
Right now, the number 2 most frustrating thing is not having a USB...
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corvinus:
Have you read Xenophon?
"Anabasis"...the march up-country....
An amazing work by a military historian (and friend of
Socrates) about a mercenary expidition he and 10,000
greeks took into the midsts of Persia....
Curiously enough, it is a story placed in what is now
Iraq.
Strange.
"Anabasis"...the march up-country....
An amazing work by a military historian (and friend of
Socrates) about a mercenary expidition he and 10,000
greeks took into the midsts of Persia....
Curiously enough, it is a story placed in what is now
Iraq.
Strange.
corvinus:
P.S.
Get a Loeb classics edition...it has Ancient Greek on the
left page, and an English translation on the right....
It also contains a description of all the gory details, strategic
decisions, and tactical moves they made.
I think you might like it...I did.
Get a Loeb classics edition...it has Ancient Greek on the
left page, and an English translation on the right....
It also contains a description of all the gory details, strategic
decisions, and tactical moves they made.
I think you might like it...I did.
http://www.sagoons.com/~iraq/movies/500.mpg