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The view from my Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP*) vehicle is one small windows looking out the back. Sometimes I wonder how did I end up here? How did I end up in the back of this MRAP? This wasn’t the Air Force deployment I had been hoping for. But here I sit and this is […]
So, I wasn’t planning to do another update until after New Zealand. (I got 15 days off about half way through the deployment, I met up with Michael in NZ) But the flight from Forward Operating Base (FOB) Morales Frazier to Bagram Air Field (BAF) was so cool that I just felt I had to […]
Moving on to the next assignment is a requirement when you are in the military. There is no debating on if you should go or where you will end up. There is a dream sheet that you fill out when a move is on the horizon, but that is all it is. A dream of […]
I have decided to be a part of the 31 days of writing, which means writing everyday in October. The theme for me was easy being a military veteran and spouse “31 Days…Military Life.” The topic needed to be broad and narrow. I hope I can share my insights into what being in the military […]
How do you tell someone how something so small meant so much? When I moved to Ohio it was the middle of winter. If you are from California that probably doesn’t mean much, but if you are from somewhere that actually has winter you will know that there isn’t a lot of activity going on […]
September 11th came this year and for the first time in over a decade I wasn’t in uniform. I was a cadet in the Reserve Officer Training Corp for four years and then served six years as an officer in the United States Air Force. For this year, some reason it hit me that this […]
This is the story of my first mission in Afghanistan. And to give you a back story. I spent nine months in Afghanistan and four months in Indiana for training. Pretty much you could say the whole year I was 25 I was on a side adventure to my life. I left for training when […]
I have made the choice to stay home with my son. Before he was born it was an easy choice. You know the one people commend you for and you have dreams of what it will be like to be at home with your perfect child. People told me I might get bored and I […]
I survived a pretty big earthquake in Afghanistan. Here is a letter home about the uneventful, but slightly dramatic event. This update also provided other details about Afghanistan and me dreaming about going home. Earthquake in Afghanistan Last night is slept through a 6.3 earthquake. We don’t know where the earthquake center was, but my […]
It is another Tuesday and another prompt word. This week’s prompt is BELIEVE. I don’t really know where this post came from. It is one of my favorite parts about prompt word writing. You find out what is inside your mind waiting to come out. I hope you enjoy this post and how it ties […]
