A Snowy Blog

It snowed yesterday. About 8 inches. And today, the clouds parted and made for some good pictures. Not so much good picture taking though, because it was like 8 degrees and below zero with the wind chill. So here's a little Merry Christmas from New York.

Sackets Harbor Rocks!

Alright, last video for a while. I promise. My mom showed me this one. Suck on this Manhattan!

My New Girlfriend

I may not be very attractive, but she likes me just the way I am. We dance.

Dancing

Hey all,

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. It's mainly because I can't stop dancing. A convenience store camera caught me doing this little number.

Relaxin' Jackson

Hey all!

I'm down here in beautiful Fort Jackson, South Carolina! I actually mean that, it's pretty nice down here. Much nicer than Fort Benning down in Georgia. Fort Jackson sits right next to Columbia, home of the Gamecocks! I'd like to see a game. I hear SEC football is crazy. One thing is for sure, they've got nothing on the PAC-10! Especially with a name like Gamecocks.

The Army is putting me to work! I work 6 day weeks and get just Sunday off. And the training I'm doing isn't traditional "military style" training. I actually am in a classroom for most of the day, which is alright with me, especially of late, because it has been raining alot. Plus, there is a tropical storm/hurricane headed this way. Florida and Georgia will most likely slow it down, but it will still bring rain and wind. Awesome.

The Army has put me up in a hotel here on post. It's just a regular, run of the mill hotel room. I get free cable and internet, clean towels, and everyday when I get back, my bed is made and my floor is vacuumed! It's like magic! Anyways, Myrtle Beach and Charleston are close by, so I might check one of those out one of these weekends. I really don't have any pictures of the area yet, but some are surely to come. That's all I got!

Back in P-Tizzle

So, I show up at Fort Jackson in South Carolina to report for training, and they tell me they have no rooms. This was Thursday. Thank goodness for Priceline. I bought a pretty cheap ticket and flew to Portland the next day. I didn't tell my parents I was coming. I just strolled up and knocked on the window. They were surprised. So I'm in old P-town until Saturday morning. So, if anybody is driving to the beach or wants to go, you may as well swing by my hoose and pick me up. That's about it.

Culmination Week

This past week at BOLC II was "Culmination Week". Simply put, it is a melding of all the tactics we had learned to that point. It was rough. I didn't get much sleep. I counted 12 hours of sleep for the 4 nights that we spent at the FOB. But it was all good training. The majority of my lack of sleep was due to the 10 mile ruck march that took place at 2am on Friday morning. I didn't actually sleep that night. But believe me, I slept Saturday morning. For like 12 hours. 12 awesome hours.

The best training that was conducted, in my opinion, was the night urban ops training. The McKenna Range was divided up and each platoon had 4 or 5 buildings that they had to clear. We had to use night vision devices in order to effectively clear the rooms. There was a constant barrage of artillery and grenade simulators being dropped and blank ammunition being fired. I swear I sort of saw my life flash before my eyes.

I actually could have slept on Thursday because it was my platoon's turn to provide OPFORs (opposing forces) as training aides for the other platoons. They only needed 6 and for some reason, I volunteered. It was actually really fun. I basically got to cause chaos while American forces tried desperately to destroy me. Good stuff.

Oh yeah, one more thing. One guy in my platoon, Frye, said that I should blog about blogging. I decided to take it a step farther and blog about the conversation that we had about blogging about blogging. So there it is. Here are some pics from the week: