Focus

I have been thinking about what I will focus on during my stay in Kuwait. I have come to the decision after talking with many senior enlisted, warrant and commisioned officers that I want to go to a Ranger unit. I want to do real intel with a REAL unit. I have also been thinking of how I will set myself apart from my peers whom have already been deployed and will be one step ahead of me my entire career if i don't do something that they won't or can't. I am going to Ranger school. I want to be a Ranger qualified 35F. Of all the seniors that I have talked to they have rarely seen a intel guy who is Ranger qualified. So this will take alot of preparation. I will discuss the details of my training that I will conduct in my time here in Kuwait as I figure out what I will be doing.

I don't care

oh I know that there will be some typeos in my writting but I am not the grammer king Amy is so don't tell me I don't care.

Well traveled

I have been talking with some of my peers that are here with me in kuwait and I have concluded that I am well traveled for someone of my my means and my age. none of my family has alot of money and I have never had alot of money but somehow my life has taken me to eight countries in the last five years. I have spent 2 months various parts of Peru, I was stationed in Belgium for 10 months where I had the chance to travel to Spain, France, Germany, Netherlands, and Luxenberg. I have now been deployed for a short time to Kuwait. I will not include all the places in the US I have been. (That really doesn't count)

Now I know there are alot of peaple out there nowdays that have been to many more places than I in that short of time but you must remember that I am not a trust fund baby nor do I have a high paying job as a matter of fact I had a wife and a kid for much of my travel. I am not trying to bragg or make myself out to be some kind of travel guru but when I think of what I will be able to use my expeirences of my travel is this; my kids. I will be able to teach them things and tell stories of things that they may never get to see and hopefully I can inspire them to get out of their world that they know and go see the rest of it. I can't explain what kind of things have happened to me in my travels but I do know that no one can ever be worse off for expanding their horizons.

it doesn't have to make sense it just has to make ARCENTs

We have now finished setup for the exercise and we are still having to go to work from 7pm to 7am to sit around and do nothing. i have done one thing since i got on shift tonight and it took 30 minutes. I do not see the point of sitting around just to be present and say that we were here even though there is nothing to do.
I can't wait to get to a real unit.

Be flexable

I have been in Kuwait for 7 days now and in those seven days I have ben told 3 times that i will be staying in Arifhjan then in Buering then back to AJ, I have pulled two 26 hour days and ben switched between night shift and day shift 4 times. It is impossible to have a regular schedule here. I can understand why some peaple can't hack it in the Army. I understand that is also why companies pay more attention to applicants who have served a good amount of time in the military; we are a special breed. And everyone isn't cut out for this life.

Hubby's blog

Chris's asked me to make him a blog so here it is... enjoy :)
-Amy