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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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Raising JD: March 2009
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A blog about raising my three year old son, Jack and adjusting to being a father after spending a year in Iraq. Wednesday, March 11, 2009. The weather in northern California slowly is warming up after a very wet February. While we're not out of the woods of a drought by any means, it's nice to see the sun, especially after Daylight Saving Time. My attractive wife and I are especially happy for the extra daylight which allows Jack to romp around in our condo association's shared back yard area. He raced u...
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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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Raising JD: Funny Face
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A blog about raising my three year old son, Jack and adjusting to being a father after spending a year in Iraq. Wednesday, May 27, 2009. One of Jack's favorite shows at the moment is "Yo Gabba Gabba." One segment is called "Funny Face," where kids on the show make a variety of funny faces. This evening, I was trying to get Jack to come back to the common back yard area and get ready to go back inside for his bath. He wouldn't budge. I distracted him by invoking the "Funny Face! View my complete profile.
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Raising JD: June 2009
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A blog about raising my three year old son, Jack and adjusting to being a father after spending a year in Iraq. Thursday, June 18, 2009. Yesterday, my good friend Herschel came over. Jack adores Herschel. He even got Herschel to give him a spin in the back yard. The best part of this game is how both feel afterward; Jack can't stand up and Herschel mumbled something about getting another beer. Monday, June 15, 2009. Sunday, June 14, 2009. To change but they haven't and he's acting out in some ways.
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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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