Half a World Away

Well, we are back on friendly soil finally. We hit Fort McCoy, Wisconsin on Tuesday and are all well on our way to getting demobilized and ...

Quick update on the pledge drive in support of Fisher House. Thanks to David, the Duty Officer over at The Sandbox, who put my original pos...

The fine folks over at VAJoe.com have been doing a series of interviews with military bloggers. Follow this link to check mine out. There i...

Part of the process of getting out of here is remembering those that have gone before us. It struck me the other day as we were making plans...

Well, my Fisher House pledge drive is off to a great start. Many, many thanks to everyone that has stopped by and donated. After just a few ...

Well, not me exactly. I was out on the Fisher House website the other day getting the link for my post on the Doonesbury Book . I noticed...

You may remember that I did a few stories for the Sandbox , a blog set up by the folks that bring you Doonesbury. The first one I submitted,...

We got some good news about 2 weeks ago and it is finally official so we can share it. We found out we'll be leaving "early" ...

Definitely slacking off on getting my updates done on my training for the Chicago Marathon. Sorry. No good reason. I was planning on doing t...

From time to time our guys end up with some contraband as evidence. One of the things that is in long supply over here are AK-47s. Every I...

Sorry for the communication blackout. Blogs are once again blocked, hence the sparse posting for the last 2 weeks. Ran across this article t...

One more batch of pictures from my recent trip to Qatar. Here is Brad and I in front of the harbor. This is the City Center mall in downtow...

Part of the fun of going to Qatar is that they have excursions you can take off the base and into the city of Doha. Brad and I went out on ...

There are very few positives of the additional 4 months that got added to our time over here. One of them is that we are now eligible for a...

Final installment of Spur Ride pictures. Follow the links for Part 1 and Part 2 if you need to get caught up. Beans also some coverage ove...

You can find Part 1 of this post here. Here are some more pictures from our recent Spur Ride. Me getting ready to head out on the ruck marc...

The Stetson isn't the only accoutrement that can be earned while attached to a Cavalry unit. Another rite of passage is called a Spur ...