Sometime this summer, President Obama signed the something or another bill (HR 6205) that included back-pay for veterans and soldiers who had been stop-lossed. This was a struggle at first, if you remember, because the initial bill authorized $1500 per month for current soldiers [...]
In an empty PT field across from the Brigade MP Company, three clusters of soldiers, from three Battalions in the Brigade, congregated around an old Oak Tree. It was one of those dishwasher days in Kentucky, where the high-pressure, high-humidity weather changed as quickly [...]
September 20, 2005
Oasis. Cake. Weezer. 311. Madness. Beck. Jet. Garbage. Live. The Bravery. Arcade Fire. Bloc Party.
OMG.
here's my mastercard commercial:
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Ok, so I was fucking stuck. The assholes were definitely not going to let me stay home to be with Mrs. 13 for the birth of our child, and there was no way around it. After snooping around a bit too much for information, [...]
From my Myspace blog:
September 6, 2005
i am so worn and broken down today, and not just physically. i have so much on my mind that my body just isn't keeping up. is this what it feels like to age? am i physically able to see in a slowed, blurry' [...]
Let's examine this article from the lens of today: Barack Obama is President, we surged to 150k troops in Iraq, and well, it's about 4 years later. What have our politicians accomplished?
BTW, my comments are red, in parenthesis, were written the day this article appeared in the press, and was [...]
Some people say that they would like to know when they are going to die. Others complain that it would ruin the' [...]
In the office of every commander is an accessible, and clearly posted list of guidelines, procedures, and “thou shalt not’s” that illustrates the commanders intent, policies, and expectations. Most of the time, every new commander copies the previous list, and attaches his signature as [...]
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Last summer, I retold the story of working in the Falcon RIC during the summer of 2003, and of having to interview and hire interpreters to work for us. There was one in particular, named Adnan, who was soon going to be marrying. [...]
When I returned from my two-week pre-deployment leave, several things turned up for me that I felt strengthened my case to get out. I had previously found some information on stop loss in the DFAC, but not the order itself. It was just some [...]
Okay, so I passed the Sergeant Promotion Board.
Yep, Specialist Whineybitch was going to be a leader, whereby sixty days after going, points [...]
I haven’t been around for a while, and things at home have been kind of difficult. I’m going to get into it another time, but as a result of the California wildfire of October 2007—I was mobilized by my California Army National Guard Unit, [...]
July 25, 2005
FUCK FUCK FUCK the ARMY!!!
Please realize that although America is a “successful democracy,” there is NO democracy in the service that protects your freedom. When will the madness of this Autocracy end?
The Army is in the business of war, and when [...]
For the geeks, these are my own screenshots.
As you may already know, the Pentagon addressed the stop loss policy a couple weeks ago, proclaiming to end it in 2010. What do I, author of the original stop loss blog have to [...]
June 2, 2005
Mister Good Bush visited Fort Campbell today. I guess he flew into Campbell Army Air Field, and then was escorted to the Hopkinsville Convention Center in Hopkinsville, Kentucky to speak about Social Security.
I'm sure his aides looked closely at the surrounding' [...]
I'm not going to apologize for thinking critically and differently than traditional cadence describes. To me, it is fucking simple (stupid). If you are an American, freedom is free, and has been paid for. Interest free. It's a birthright held from none. But as an American supposedly fighting to protect [...]
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Our first snow! (We're from Southern California) Mr. 13 doesn't make a habit of parking on the lawn- he was smooth enough to get stuck, thinking he could get OUT of the garage...
From My "Green Book" entry, written at JRTC:
I lay in my cot, stuffed warmly inside my black bag with my head resting atop an Army pillow, and my eyes and ears covered by a neck gator. Out of a deep sleep, I was [...]
Wednesday, March 30, 2004 – Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, LA
Welcome to the sweaty, unshaven armpit of purgatory—the humid, stinky backbone of the South. So far, I’ve seen a speed freak’s ass, a beaten down blonde in a gas station, the Mississippi [...]
As I walked up to the burgundy-colored door, I felt my fist clenching into a tightly woven ball. I took in a large breath, and raised my hand, pausing before striking.
Knock authoritatively. Not a machine-gun burst, not a cute, girly whisper of a [...]
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It wouldn’t be accurate to say that I lived in fear of the paddle while growing up. But like most my age, a backhand, belt, or paddle was not as frowned upon as it is today. Although I was mostly an angel--the firstborn, intelligent, [...]
By Mrs. 13 Stoploss
