Day: 3/14/2010

  • The Blues, APFT, and rain

    March 14, 2010

    By: First Lieutenant Bobby Luyties


    This past week has seen a lot more classroom with all the focus now on Criminal law. We are breezing our way through the UCMJ and the other 8 books we've been assigned and there is A LOT of lecture. We've been assigned our trial memo which is supposedly going to take 10-15 hours to complete, but having done one before, and this one only being 3 pages long, I would say more like 2-3 hours (although it does count for 50% of our criminal law grade). We started our...read more

  • Public affairs Soldiers do it all

    March 14, 2010

    By: Specialist A.M. LaVey


    Port-au-Prince, Haiti Public affairs Soldiers do it all. One of my instructors at the schoolhouse said that this is the best job in the Army. While I am sure most MOSs say that, I truly believe this to be true. Most days, whether they are deployed or back in garrison, will always be different. For example, my old job as a combat sewing machine operator, I went to work maintained a certain number of parachutes and went home. Sometimes there were variations, but usually not. ...read more

  • Living the Dream

    March 14, 2010

    By: Cadet Eric Bernau


    Well I tried to take a video of the entire hotel area to give everyone an introduction to where we were staying, but uploading it to facebook would take 4.5 hours. As passionate as I am about this blog, I do not have the motivation to guard my computer for that long in the lobby that has WiFi here, so I will have to wait until hopefully Cairo, or back in America (worst case scenario) to upload the videos I've taken. Yesterday we arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh after an 11 hour flight to...read more

  • Heat

    March 14, 2010

    By: Major Chris LeCron


    Everything is well here. It is starting to get hot, I mean real hot! & I love warm weather. I have been working out at lunchtime but that may be ending soon. Yesterday, I ran a 2 mile run for time on the track in what was probably 95 degree heat. My time was very good considering I was still sore from my soccer game and the heat. I was able to run a sub 14 minute 2 mile which probably equals almost a 13 minute two mile with fresh legs and decent temps. Yesterday afternoon and evening I had a...read more