Walter Reed patients told to keep quiet

You've seen it in the news, now hear it from a guy who knows, this is the best blog post you'll read about that subject anywhere. Now I leave you to go back to studying, thanks again for the votes, donations and support!

I’m the Award Winner of the 2006 Milbloggies for the Navy!

Thanks for your votes! If you’re wondering what a milbloggie is, here’s what Milblogging.com says about it:“The Milbloggies Award recognizes military blogger for their contribution to blogging, news and information, and to the military over the last year”. It was somewhat of a surprise that I won this year, as far as blogging goes, the past year was a slow one. I wasn’t doing the daily grind

Voting closes tonight at 8PM for the Milbloggies

I'm still currently in the lead for the Navy category, thank you readers for the votes and donations to the trip fund. The total is at 570 dollars!! A big thank you to Bane who sent readers my direction.The hotel room has been booked and the tickets will be purchased on Friday. I haven’t been good company at home for the past week and instead of hanging out with me when I'm acting like a lump on

What people think of me

Back in the day, I used to be a crazy rock climber and cliff diver, known by my friends for some of my free climbs on normally protected routes and my willingness to jump off of anything into water. Not because I lacked fear but I was addicted to challenging it. Believe me, I know I wasn't an amazing rock climber and knew climbers and cliff divers who did stuff which I thought was crazy and

Milbloggie Voting is Now Open

Over at Milblogging.com, head on over and vote for your favorite milblogger (while you're over there, I wouldn't mind a vote either:)

Three years of blogging (a ramble)

Three years actually a fairly big number if you float around the blogosphere a bit. Bane got me thinking on this, most blogs seem to have a finite life span. Many of the blogs that have burned bright eventually fade and the author puts up a post about having nothing more to say and falls out of the cyber landscape. 3 years is actually a heck of a long time for a milblogger, many of us get home

Update on my Convention Trip Fund Drive

Nine days into the fund drive the total is now at 325 dollars, thanks everybody, specially Bane who has been whipping his readers to my cause with a fund drive. If this is your first time over here, I'm trying to gather funds to help support my trip to the 2007 Milblog Convention in Arlington VA in May. I don't like asking for hand outs, but the 1000 or so dollars that the trip is going to set me

Nominations for the 2006 Milbloggies are now Open!

Currently I seem to be in the lead for the Navy NominationsCheck the charts to see the current standings:View Branch Nomination StandingsView Country Nomination StandingsThe Rules?The Milbloggies Award recognizes military bloggers for their contribution to blogging, news and information, and to the military over the past year.Overview1. A military blog can be nominated ONLY once by the same

PTSD Questions

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been receiving emails from people asking about PTSD and if I know any of my Marines who are willing to talk about it. First thing is, I’m not going to give out medical information on any of my patients. Not that most of the ones that I know mind talking about it, it’s a matter of me keeping my job and out of jail. I can let them know that someone is interested and

Sorry to all my buddies in Snow Country

I should be studying or having car washes to support my trip to DC but instead we went to the beach with the Dog, pictures can be found here. The last few days have been bright and sunny, no great plans this weekend, just cleaning up the house (endless job) and studying, maybe doing some work on the beast. Great day, I'm bushed and have no thoughts on any news that's going on in the world. Just

I've posted some very old pictures

over at my fotopage, me with long hair, glasses, jumping and climbing all over things, friends of mine doing the same sort of stuff. Oh to be young again!

Sorry about the patchy blogging

One of our squadrons just went through a Command Generals inspection, the only problem is, the corpsman assigned to that squadron transferred last month and his replacement had not arrived yet. So on Tuesday last week, we get a phone call saying that this command was going to be inspected on Monday. Oh no and we're all short handed right now.What does the Navy stand for? Never again volunteer

Milblog Convention Fund Drive

My good blogging buddy Bane has started a fund drive to help me gather money for our trip to the 2007 Milblog Convention in Arlington VA. Thank you very much, you have made my week!Normally, I don’t believe in believe in donations for my writing but this has been a fairly tight year and the 1000 or so dollars that the trip is going to cost will definitely put our budget into the red.In the 96

R.I.P. FHM

Tonight I was tasked by my lovely wife to stop by the store and buy her some “products”. When I shop, I tend to shop in a holistic manner, meaning I wander around and looking at everything and saying to my self "oh, I need that".Today, I just happened to meander by the magazine rack and saw that FHM was publishing their last issue. Woah, considering it was one of the top read magazines in Iraq,

2007 Milblog Conference

Will be taking place in Arlington VA on the 4th and 5th of May.There will be 4 panels,From the Front, milbloggers who blogged from Iraq and Afghanistan.All in the family, will be those left behind, the spouses and significant othersPotluck, will be a mix of milbloggersAnd finally Wounded Warriors, Healers and Angels section of which I’m a panelist.My wife and I both plan on attending, that is if

I’ve found religion

What happens after you die? Why do disasters happen? What happens when someone steals God’s lunch? You can find the answer at God, Inc.

How will I be remembered?

I was tagged by that Desert Girl again

The Crash in Iraq

Earlier today I heard on the news that a CH-46 went down in Iraq and everything stopped as I searched the news for details. My first trip out to Iraq, I flew in 46’s flying CASEVAC and it’s a small community, if you do it long enough, you get know everybody. With 7 deaths in the crash, it wasn’t likely a troop transport run which means it’s was probably a CASEVAC mission.Word’s not out yet with

Coronado's Dog Beach

We checked out the Dog Beach next to the navy base in Coronado. It was balmy 72 degrees out and the water was great, not that Gatsby noticed, he was just happy to be at the beach. The beach is right down the way from Hotel Del Coronado as the pictures here show. The directions are, drive to the Hotel Del Coronado, turn right towards the beach, follow the road till you get to the gate to the Navy

6 weird things

Sigh, I’ve been tagged by Desert PhoenixWith thisHere are the "Official Rules""Each player of this game starts with 6 weirdthings about you. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment thatsays you are tagged in their comments and

Layout changes

3 years of the same old boring Sean and it was time for somewhat of a change. So I’ve spent the greater part of an evening transferring links one at a time to the new blogger template then realized there was a place where I could copy and paste my old HTML and get my clock too. Probably still a few style bugs around but I’ll just have to fix that later. My bed and wife are calling me so I’d