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Dirt Sailor: Freeze
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A blog detailing my mobilization to Baghdad, Iraq late 2007 to late 2008 with the US Navy. Saturday, February 23, 2008. As we make our way through Baghdad’s surprisingly cold winter, everyone is talking about the freeze. This freeze has nothing to do with temperature; yesterday, Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr (MAS) announced that he is extending the Mahdi Army’s cease fire – or freeze – for an additional six months. JAM has clashed with Coalition Forces (CF) on many occasions, the most serious being a ser...
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Dirt Sailor: NMPS - Day 2
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A blog detailing my mobilization to Baghdad, Iraq late 2007 to late 2008 with the US Navy. Friday, October 17, 2008. NMPS - Day 2. Day two consisted of a final administrative push to complete my DD-214. People. I guess the transition will take some time getting used to. In a few hours I will get to see my attractive wife and handsome son. October 17, 2008 at 3:45 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The End and its Afterlife. It Ends . at the NOSC. Three is a Magic Number. NMPS - Day 2. NMPS - Day 1.
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Dirt Sailor: Service Flag
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A blog detailing my mobilization to Baghdad, Iraq late 2007 to late 2008 with the US Navy. Sunday, October 19, 2008. While away, I sent my parents and my attractive wife service flags. To signify I was overseas. Displaying such flags to signify a family member is overseas serving with the military dates back to both World War I and II. Shortly after I got home two days ago, my parents sent me this picture of my father ceremonially taking down the service flag they had displayed outside their house.
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Dirt Sailor: It Begins ... at the NOSC
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A blog detailing my mobilization to Baghdad, Iraq late 2007 to late 2008 with the US Navy. Sunday, October 14, 2007. It Begins . at the NOSC. The mob orders gave me over a month to prepare myself, my wife, and our year-and-a-half old son, not to mention stew over, my impending deployment. I got a Navy lawyer to prepare an appropriate Last Will and Testament and suitable Powers of Attorney for my wife. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Lunch with ADM Greenert. Mk 19 Grenade Launcher. NMPS, San Diego.
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Dirt Sailor: It Ends ... at the NOSC
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A blog detailing my mobilization to Baghdad, Iraq late 2007 to late 2008 with the US Navy. Tuesday, October 21, 2008. It Ends . at the NOSC. Yesterday, I went back. To Naval Operational Support Center (NOSC) Alameda, CA, my home reserve center, to finish up some final administrative tasks. Like NMPS, demobing was significantly easier than mobilizing. I turned in copies of my orders, leave slip (I get thirty days of it! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The End and its Afterlife. Three is a Magic Number.
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Dirt Sailor: Flying to Kuwait
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A blog detailing my mobilization to Baghdad, Iraq late 2007 to late 2008 with the US Navy. Monday, November 5, 2007. The next evening, 1 NOV, we said goodbye to our drill sergeants and McCrady Training Center and boarded buses to Columbia Airport where a chartered MD-11 waited. We had a final good bye from the Task Force Marshall Company A commander, an aged Army Captain with bushy eyebrows, gray hair and a distinct Southern Carolina accent who quoted from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar:. Is This Thing On?
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Dirt Sailor: The Last Week
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A blog detailing my mobilization to Baghdad, Iraq late 2007 to late 2008 with the US Navy. Sunday, October 5, 2008. Suddenly, I find myself in my last week in Iraq. It snuck up on my in way I didn’t think it would. After all, I’ve been looking forward to the end of my tour – everyone does. But to be actually faced with its impending completion leaves me feeling, well, strange. How long could that keep up? And yet it did for the entire year I was here. The patron saint of travelers. Thank you for your inf...
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Dirt Sailor: Dead Guy Quotes
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A blog detailing my mobilization to Baghdad, Iraq late 2007 to late 2008 with the US Navy. Monday, October 20, 2008. If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled: for you are in Elysium, and you're already dead! Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity. Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commanding General, Fourth Roman Legion ( Legio IV Flavia Felix. Germania, 180 AD. Labels: Dead Guy Quotes. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The End and its Afterlife.
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Dirt Sailor: Adjusting
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A blog detailing my mobilization to Baghdad, Iraq late 2007 to late 2008 with the US Navy. Sunday, October 26, 2008. Remember when I laughed off all those "transition assistance" briefs back at WTP? Well, they were right; adjusting to life at home is, well, not as easy as I thought it would be. The other thing is I keep losing everything. I ask her. "In the place it's supposed to be," she answers cryptically. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The End and its Afterlife. It Ends . at the NOSC. WTP - Day 3.
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Dirt Sailor: A final post...
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A blog detailing my mobilization to Baghdad, Iraq late 2007 to late 2008 with the US Navy. Sunday, October 26, 2008. Is coming. I hope to Pull It All Together for you. It's still in draft form. I'll get there eventually. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The End and its Afterlife. It Ends . at the NOSC. Three is a Magic Number. NMPS - Day 2. NMPS - Day 1. WTP - Day 3. WTP - Day 2. WTP - Day 1. My God, its full of stars. Leaving the International Zone. On the road . View my complete profile.
