As a child one of my favorite movies was Time Bandits. It may have been the chaotic nature of the film or the idea of jumping through time itself was so satisfying. Of course the off hand crazy characters that the former Monty Python included definitely helped. As an adult I have found the chaotic nature of the small actors amazing. Unfortunately, I have had to many run ins with…
The why and how someone joins the military is different for each individual. Of the thousands of Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, and Coasties, or as they are commonly known, Ground pounders, Taxi drivers, Crayon eaters, Chair sitters and Puddle pirates I have heard almost as many versions of enlistment stories. To include: I had nothing better to do; I got bored living in the basement; this was going to be…
In January 2007, I got off the plane in Baghdad Iraq having returned from my 2 week leave excited to get back to work. After getting off the bus on base I started to walk to my unit HQ, bags in hand, to get my weapon and get a back brief from my NCO on what fell through the cracks in my absence. When out of no where, I was…
