Birthday Dinner

Every year my wife takes me out to my favorite restaurant or makes one of my favorite meals for my birthday. This year Uncle Sam had the honor, Veggie Burger in Barbecue Sauce MRE...Yum. Honestly, the package would probably taste better.


Until next time: Keep your eye on a shipmate, head on a swivel and stand by to Give'em Hell! Hooah!

Arrived: Camp McCrady

I made it to Camp McCrady located on Fort Jackson, SC.

A few posts ago I stated I was going to sit around San Diego (SD) until my flight to SC…Rather than sit around the barracks in SD, I decided to take 6 days leave. I flew home to Florida and spent some time with the family. After my leave the pace of the events started to quicken, I flew back to SD and two days later I flew a military hop back to the east coast.

My training unit arrived in our barracks and unpacked our sea bags, ready to call this open bay home for the next three weeks.



Until next time: Keep your eye on a shipmate, head on a swivel and stand by to Give'em Hell! Hooah!

NArmy

A few of my civilian friends have asked, “What is the NArmy?” Having assumed everyone knew what the NArmy was I did not provide a definition of the word, and for that I apologize.

The NArmy is simply a word merge of the words Navy and Army. Sailors who are assigned to the Army are considered to be part of the NArmy. Sailors in the NArmy are considered ”Sailders” (Sail-jer) again a word merge of Sailor and solider.

There are currently 12,000 Sailders in the US NArmy serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and in the Horn of Africa.

Until next time: Keep your eye on a shipmate, head on a swivel and stand by to Give'em Hell! Hooah!

Good To Go!

CENTCOM Medical stated no waiver is required and that I am good to go medically...so I guess I'll just sit back and enjoy sunny San Diego for a couple of weeks (until the next group of IAs fly to FT Jackson to finish training.)

The only question now is Alberto's or Santana's for dinner?

Until next time: Keep your eye on a shipmate, head on a swivel and stand by to Give'em Hell!

NMPS/ECRC San Diego

Just a quick update...I am in San Diego on temporary medical hold awaiting a medical waiver from CENTCOM Medical. I will fill in the details later.

Until next time: Keep your eye on a shipmate, head on a swivel and stand by to Give'em Hell!

Checked Out

This morning, I officially transferred from my Southeast Region Command [which I will not disclose due to OPSEC]. It is a great command and I will honestly miss the people who I worked with everyday. I will be on leave until mid July then I’ll report to NMPS and ECRC San Diego for processing and then transfer to Camp McCrady/Fort Jackson for training. Until next time: Keep your eye on a shipmate, head on a swivel and stand by to Give'em Hell!

ECRC Checklist

A while back I mentioned that I was working on my ECRC Checklist. I finished it and now I am ready to start it all over again. The good folks at the Expeditionary Combat Readiness Center (ECRC) have changed their mandatory checklist for the third time since I was ordered to Afghanistan. This in itself would not be so bad, but they keep changing what information is required. Hopefully, third times a charm.

Until next time: Keep your eye on a shipmate, head on a swivel and stand by to Give'em Hell!