^^ ahhhhhhhh take a knee, drink water, change your socks and rub dirt on it. i'll be ok

5/23/2007 12:05:46 PM

lol

5/24/2007 10:39:09 AM

take care of yourself

5/24/2007 10:48:26 AM

good luck to ya! hooah!

5/24/2007 11:00:35 AM

No one else finds it funny that she is gonna bring us snow globes???

5/24/2007 12:12:48 PM

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"I've never seen or talked to you before on TWW before, but good luck man."

and

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"Take care of yourself, come home safe, and thank you."

[Edited on May 24, 2007 at 12:38 PM. Reason : ^ It is quite ironic!]

5/24/2007 12:37:29 PM

again, stay safe, take care, come home soon, and Thank you.

5/24/2007 2:33:16 PM

Christ Penny, your kid is almost 4? It feels like just yesterday I was picking on your preggers ass.

5/24/2007 3:18:28 PM

haha i know right. yeah i'm getting old, or at least all of us are.

5/24/2007 3:57:18 PM

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"Congrats man, hope to be there soon."

This, I just cannot wrap my head around.

5/24/2007 4:06:46 PM

good luck to ye.

5/24/2007 4:09:20 PM

^^ Yeah i realize the absurdity of the comment but Im not that opposed to spending a year or so in the sandbox. Only Id likely not be doing it with the military, which may change things a bit.

5/24/2007 10:31:20 PM

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"Is the weed good over there? "

5/25/2007 1:45:48 AM

whos looking after the kid?


read lots of story where the ex(who did not have custody) got the kid temp(worked out between each other) and then the ex got full custody eventually.....most had to spend a ton to get there kids back and some didnt....some law that supposedly was to prevent that lots of judges are not going by......

this was even in cases where the person that went to Iraq was awarded full custody, eventually, the ex went to court to get full custody and was awarded it.

[Edited on May 25, 2007 at 5:44 PM. Reason : w]

5/25/2007 5:42:12 PM

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"Take care of yourself, and thank you. "

5/25/2007 10:13:58 PM

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"This, I just cannot wrap my head around."

the USMC had a problem a couple of years ago with guys dropping their pilot slots/dropping out of flight school so they could put in for infantry and get to Iraq sooner/be on the ground and more "in the mix".

they were having trouble making their numbers for aviators, so they have to set a policy that if you dropped an aviation slot, you wouldn't be allowed to compete for other jobs, and would just get stuck with whatever was left, which was stuff like admin and ground supply. I knew a couple of guys who either decided to roll the dice or didn't think the Corps would actually make good on their promise, and sure enough, they ended up in admin and ground supply.

[Edited on May 25, 2007 at 10:24 PM. Reason : ^^ don't even get me started on the fucked up system that governs child custudy, support, visitation]

5/25/2007 10:23:44 PM

I reiterate...I just can't decide if it's wholly admirable, or just insane. Either way, I don't mean to knock it at all. That whole business is just foreign to me, based on my personal and social politics.

5/25/2007 10:51:22 PM

understand.

from an operator's perspective, the whole thing can be pretty easily divorced from the politics.

from a political observer's perspective, it obviously cannot.

i therefore kinda see it through both sets of eyes.

of course, your usage of "politics", i believe, is where you really mean "philosophy", and not just of political issues.

5/25/2007 11:04:06 PM

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"from an operator's perspective, the whole thing can be pretty easily divorced from the politics."

Yes, and no. You can completely disagree with the politics (my opinion of this administration isn't the highest) and still feel like you should be over there. I just volunteered for 15 mos in Afghanistan this fall, but I'm out after that.

5/26/2007 10:31:55 AM

as far as the whole custody thing....me and my ex have a court order that states whenever i am not activated then i have full custody of tyler and with the military i have a family care plan that states that anytime i am activated, his dad gets power of attorney till i am deactivated. as far as him taking me to court for custody i really doubt that will happen. he had my son for 7 months while i was at fort leonard wood in military police school and when i got back, i had no custody issues at all.

5/29/2007 7:08:30 AM

yeah got back from iraq in mid march, and now I'm back again. this time in baghdad as well.

:-D

5/29/2007 11:18:12 AM

what's it like so far? should i be warned about anything? like camel spiders or something

5/29/2007 11:45:14 AM

its not bad, the camel spiders, pshh, they're nothing to worry about.

I've been better places, I've been worse, just get ready for some serious heat. last summer it got up to 140degreesF.

5/29/2007 4:56:58 PM