by admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Military
Backstory 3 years ago I spent 4 months in phase 0 of Officer Candidate School (OCS). For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, it’s a prep program aimed to prepare you for OCS (read about it here). It’s an intense basic training style...
by admin | Dec 28, 2014 | Military
Alright, I’ve been home now for nearly three weeks and I’m finally getting back to a somewhat normal lifestyle. I’ve been able to enjoy my kids and catching up with my wife. It started off with meeting my daughter at Easton Mall to surprise her with...
by admin | Oct 15, 2014 | Military
I’m way overdue for an update. So this will be an attempt to update you on my Afghanistan adventure thus far. Even on Facebook/Twitter my posts are pretty infrequent due to the complexity of what the military calls OPSEC(Operational Security). Meaning that pretty much...
by admin | Jul 23, 2014 | Military
So far, we have been gone for nearly 2 months. Being in the Army National Guard, we are required to do pre-mobilization training, a crammed version of everything we need to know, to prepare of us for anything we might see in Afghanistan. We have done this training out...
by admin | Apr 29, 2014 | Military
A little over 6 months ago, I received a phone call from my commander at the 211th Maintenance Unit. He told me that I had orders to show up at the 1191st Engineer Company in Portsmouth, Oh…that weekend. He also told me that there were rumors of this unit...
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