Elvis Has Left the Building

Days to go: zero (just a wake up) We fucking made it. The contract is done. Time to go home. We’ve been a combination of exhausted and excited all day. We had a bunch of work to do but hammered it all out and still had time to mail our guitars home. God damn, what is home anyway, I only have a truck and a storage unit to go back to. Maybe sleep on my mom’s couch for a while. Noah has about the same. We had a long talk in the chow hall... Read More

Countdown…

Days to go: 5 Counting the days, counting the workouts, counting the missions. Everything is becoming ‘the last time’ that we have to do things before we leave. We did some vehicle training today, kept it light, mostly just j-turns and stuff like that. I fucked off most of the time, threw 3 smoke grenades and mostly goofed off. I just don’t have the energy to focus and take this shit seriously at this point. It was fun to swing those... Read More

Creep Doggin’

Days to go: 9 (SINGLE DIGITS MUTHAFUKKA!!!) Noah “Dude, they’re adding days!” Me, having no idea what he is talking about “What? What days?” Noah “Days until we get out of here.” Me, thinking someone extended our contract somehow secretly “Who’s adding days?” Noah “You know, ‘them’!” Me, finally realizing what the fuck he was talking about “Bastards! Why the... Read More

Yummy Yummy Stir Fry

Days to go: 13 We got the day off today. Days off around here are a mixed blessing. I wouldn’t trade one out just because of the negative shit, but its just not all smiles and lollypops when we get it. Days off are good for a lot of reasons. One good thing is that a whole day just evaporates. Disappears forever, disintegrates. You are off the streets for one day, you are one day closer to going home. Lately we have fired our weapons every time... Read More

Haircut Compromise

Days to go: 14 I know you have all been wondering ‘what the fuck are those guys gonna do about those haircuts’? Well the answer is.. duh duh duh daaaah We got haircuts. I know I know, call off the revolution, we got fucking haircuts. Noah and I were walking across camp yesterday and out of nowhere both looked at each other and shared the look that says ‘dude…’ and ‘buddy, I know’. Its not worth it to fuck... Read More

Christmas Brannigan

I went on a “christmas brannigan”. Now probably most of you have no fucking idea what I’m talking about here. Back when I was in college my good buddy Dave Miller and I used to get wastoid fairly frequently. We one time heard about this thing called a ‘brannigan’ and it stuck with us. A Brannigan is an irish term used to explain a total drunken rampage. Like when you get so fucked up that you are smashing furniture and... Read More

Escape Artists

We had a guaranteed shot at booze, girls, and fancy hotels but we turned it down for a week of absolute insanity. After a long period of uncertainty the Dubai plan was actually approved by the company head shed. We would be flying out on a DFS bird Tuesday morning and have from the 30th through the 5th to do whatever the hell we wanted to. Most of the plans involved hookers, alcohol, and expensive hotels. Noah and I started adding up the prospective... Read More

Dukes of BIAP

Hypothetically speaking here.. what would you do if your boss handed you and your 3 buddies the keys to 2 brand new $250,000 BMW armored james bond cars with tv’s and radar inside? What if he told you that he just wanted you to have them washed and filled up with gas so that you could deliver them in good condition tomorrow? Well if you were Matt, Lorcan, Noah, and of course yours truly you would take those cars out on the Iraqi highways and... Read More

Germany vs Nepal

We had a fairly light day today, Fridays have a tendency to be late starters around camp. One of the major contributing factors to this tendency is due to the heavy drinking that goes on every thursday night, the night of the big camp bar-b-que and everyone is generally sleeping it off most of the next morning. I was thinking about the stuff I wrote yesterday as I was laying in bed waiting... Read More

Wild Turkey

Well its Thanksgiving again. Another holiday that slides right through me like a sickness. I kind of thought that when I got out of the teams that I would be around for all the bullshit I had missed out on in the military, all the together stuff, the human stuff, all the ceremony. Of course I was totally wrong but its starting not to bother me as much and that is what is really kinda... Read More