The Army Life

20 hours after I left Ft. Bragg, I finally arrived at Bagram Airfield (BAF).  It was cold and I had a case of Déjà vu.  The air still smells like shit and it is still dusty as hell.  Now that we were here, I couldn’t wait to see what my boss had in store for [...]

It’s a slow day in a little East Texas town.. The sun is beating down, and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.. On this particular day a rich tourist from back east is driving through town.
He stops at the motel and lays a $100 bill [...]

There was a New England Minister… His son got a job transfer to Louisiana .
Two weeks later, the son called the father–
Son: Dad, I met a girl and we’re gonna get married.
Dad: Son, you know what they say about those Southern Belles. They can’t cook, they can’t clean house, don’t make love, and she’s [...]

What a way to start the New Year off.  I found out December 24th that I would be flying out on January 1st to Afghanistan.  That was the early Christmas present I received from my team sergeant.  Thank you Army for having the great idea to deploy me on the 1st day of the New [...]

Today was the first day that I started to pack for deployment.  It is hard to pack for 9 months, but lucky for me, I just came back in July so it is still fairly fresh in my mind what I used and didn’t use.  I always spent a lot of money right before I [...]