This not a rigid amount of time but I think it’s a good estimate…90 days in theater, plus some travel time on both ends. Jacob will have a new responsibility: adding one number on the left, subtracting one on the right…every day till I come home.With Jacob’s affinity for numbers this will be really good … Read more
What you see here is everything I’m allowed to wear for the next 3 months. Everything. It’s not a lot. 4 sets of uniforms, 6 sets of physical fitness uniforms, 2 sets of physical fitness long pants/jacket sets. Underclothing to go along. Maybe I won’t need that additional baggage allowance after all… Today I also … Read more
Greetings from Hurlburt Field, FL!!! It’s about midway between Pensacola and Panama City on the FL Gulf Coast. I think they call this area the “Emerald Coast”. I’m here for 2 1/2 weeks for some Air Force training, don’t worry, I’ll be home by Christmas!After this morning’s initial shock of having to scrape ice off … Read more
We awakened this morning to about an inch of snow here. Yay! I leave tomorrow for Florida for my pre-deployment training and I was hoping to see some snow before I left. We had the boys bundled up and out the door around 8am. That’s Jacob throwing snow at Howie on the left. Timmy in … Read more
C-130 landing at Ramstein AB, Germany for some R&R during a Bosnia deployment, Jan. 1, 1998. Dave was deployed to Bosnia for an overlapping period of time, but we were in separate locations. First of all, Happy Veteran’s Day! To my fellow Veterans out there, thanks for reading my blog and for serving our great … Read more
A Good Read. This doesn’t endorse one candidate or another, but reminds us of the few in America who are fighting for the freedoms of the whole country. It’s a tough place to be in: on the one hand, I’m grateful that I’m only going to the Middle East for a very short time, and … Read more
Over the weekend I officially got permission to post a nice photo and talk about Paul on my blog. He’s my USAF “partner in crime”, we’ve been colleagues for as long as I’ve been a reservist — nearly 4 years! We now work together in SC, although I actually only see him 3-4 times per … Read more
I guess it’s simply in the stars: I cannot fly from Point A to Point B without some sort of delays. So here I am in the Columbia, SC, airport, wrapping up my 4 days of drill with my AF Reserve unit (a great productive weekend by the way), and due to a missed maintenance … Read more
Greetings from South Carolina again! This time, the cotton is in full bloom so this afternoon Paul and I pulled over and checked out what all the hype is about in cotton!I took several photos of Paul picking a cotton flower, but I won’t incriminate him here!But I know there are many of you who … Read more