Half a World Away

Okay, so I figured out how to post by email, so that will help out some. The only negative is that I can't do links or upload pictures ...

Still no luck on getting our blogs unblocked, so I'm stuck using the MWR again. Here are weeks 3 and 4 of my training for a marathon TBD...

The Army can be a funny place sometimes. Exhibit A: this week we had mandatory Combat Lifesaver (CLS) re-certification. CLS is a 40 hour cla...

My interview is posted on KOLN's web site . Our filter doesn't let us view any streaming video so I haven't seen it yet, but t...

SGT Benes had his story posted on the KOLN website. You can find it here . I am next in line, I taped my interview on Tuesday, and it will...

Well, I'm going to continue on my training plan for the time being, until we have some more concrete information on our pending extensio...

1-Denial -"this can't be happening to me", looking for the former spouse in familiar places, or if it is death, setting the ta...

I saw this on the news last night while spending some time with my best friend, the LifeCycle 300. Howard Stern was recently awarded an 83 m...

As promised, this is my weekly post on how my training is going for the Lincoln Marathon . My planned miles for Week 1 of 18 were: Monday - ...

I am a little late getting this story up, but we capped off the 2006 Husker season in fine fashion. We begged and pleaded for the Colonel t...

Every once in a while they let us out of the office to go have some fun and do some real soldier stuff. Saturday we got a late Christmas pre...

When I first found at I was getting deployed, my only desired outcomes were not dying and coming home with the same number of parts that I l...

John Kerry made a little stop in the Middle East last week. Fortunately, he didn't make it to my neck of the woods. The word on the stre...

Although we aren't where we would like to be this year, the Christmas holiday provided a nice break from the mundane this weekend. Like ...

You may have seen this already, but thought I would post it on here in case you haven't. Merry Christmas! Different Christmas Poem The ...

I did a post back in July on the fine job done by Beans and the Burnometer on mail operations. We are always encouraged to constantly ...

Okay, so I figured out why the pictures were so small. It is because I'm an idiot. I've corrected the problem, at least with the p...

The fine folks at the USO provided us with another great concert this week. Carrie Underwood , winner of American Idol and country singing s...

Congrats to the Husker Volleyball team, who completed a 33-1 season last night with a victory over Stanford to claim their 3rd National Cham...

I did an email interview this week with a gentleman named Jim for his blog Thinking Right. You can find it here . Thanks to SPC Erickson fr...