Must Be At Least A Six to Join The Navy
September 3rd, 2008
How the scale system works;
Thank goodness I had a waiver or I would have had to join the Air Force. (Read the rest of the story…)
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Labor Day 2008
August 31st, 2008
According to the Department of Labor (DOL), Labor Day is a yearly national tribute to the contributions of workers whom continue to bring prosperity and strength to our great nation. Labor Day started as a celebration back in the mid 1880s with street parades showing the public “the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations” of the community, followed by a festival for the recreation and amusement of the workers and their families.
Labor Day for me, I am sorry to say, has never been a celebration as described by the DOL - for me it has always been a long weekend for spending quality time with the family, having one last “summer” BBQ and ensuring my fantasy (Read the rest of the story…)
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Do Not Attempt to Adjust Your Screen
August 15th, 2008
If you have been to this site before you would have noticed the dark background and the white lettering - I think I have been reading it so long I have started to go blind. My wife has been telling me for over a year that it is too hard to read and I should change it. Well, I’m starting to work on it. Problem is - I’m color blind, no not the color blind where you can make out the wire is red or blue - I am talking about what matches, what colors go together. I am “tone deaf” when it comes to colors. (Read the rest of the story…)
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Cant Get It Out Of My Head
July 23rd, 2008
“Delta Dawn”, Tanya Tucker’s version, brings me to a trip we took to the hospital to see my brother who spent a couple of weeks getting skin graphs on a badly burned hand. My sister and I would be in the back of the station wagon and it seemed every time we made the trek to the hospital “Delta Dawn” would come on the radio. My sister and I would sing every word. Got to the point I couldn’t wait to make the trip again to bellow out another verse. It is amazing how to this day I will always associate that song with that event.
“My” songs may not be the best songs ever written but as fate would have it they happened to be playing at the right time in the right place to have become a memory placeholder for the important events in my life.
I don’t have too much recollection of music prior to the age of about 11, (Read the rest of the story…)
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Sailor - Soldier - Marine - Airman
July 12th, 2008
May 19, 1994 the Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton decreed the word Sailor when used in Naval correspondence and referring to Sailors of the U.S. Navy - Sailor will be capitalized. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker in October 2003 and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John Jumper in May 2004 decreed the same for the words Soldier and Airman respectively. Marine (when referring to a person in the Marine Corps) is a proper noun and will always be capitalized.
Sailor, Soldier and Airman are also considered proper nouns in this blog (I hope in your blog too). I think when you are referring to them in any article, blog, correspondence, print and print media those words should be capitalized - if you’re afraid some English teacher may come and swat your knuckles or you’re concerned the grammar police may attempt to arrest you, tell them these words are proper “respect” nouns and they need to follow the lead of the respective military service heads and update their grammar manuals. (Read the rest of the story…)
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Independence Day Memories
July 4th, 2008
It was a very hot summer day and the only things making the heat bearable was the smell of freshly grilled steak, a freshly grilled steak smell has many medicinal properties I won’t get into for now, and the fact that is was our first “day off” in quite a while. You see we, the USS Forrestal and battle group, have been deployed from our home ports for going on 30 days and we were in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea and I was experiencing my first “Steal Beach Picnic”.
The picnic was an event that would make any outdoor party fanatic proud - there were grills (Read the rest of the story…)
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Pondering Stuff
July 2nd, 2008
On every government check I ever got it said in the fine print that it would no longer be “good” after one year from the issue date - did the checks we pay Cuba for Gitmo also expire? I mean Castro just throws them in a desk drawer when he gets them. Is that like money sitting in our national checking account?
Words to live by; “Putting your best foot forward isn’t that impressive if you haven’t washed your feet.”
We have been digging up ancient people’s graves for a couple of hundred years now - (Read the rest of the story…)
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Tiger Woods Sports Hero
June 22nd, 2008
Tiger Woods has been receiving a lot of press lately for doing the impossible - played with a torn ligament and a leg fracture. Sure, Tiger played through pain. A true sports hero - we will tell his story over and over again. Future generations will talk about Tiger Woods and what he was able to accomplish. I know I will, I was excited to watch him win - I pulled for him and felt the pain every time he grimaced. I know my future grandchildren (well, there is always hope :)) will be sitting on my lap someday hearing me tell the tale of how Tiger won the U.S. Open on one leg - but unlike most I will also be telling my grandchildren (Read the rest of the story…)
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Tagged!
June 16th, 2008
I have been tagged - yes, just like the school yard game - by the Armchair Admiral himself. So now that I’m “It” I shall meet my obligations and reach out and tag others. I’m not a very fast runner so I might have to sneak up on ya 
Here are the rules:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
5. Present an image of martial discord from whatever period or situation you’d like.
Here are my seven facts: (Read the rest of the story…)
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MEDIC!
May 29th, 2008
Security at Disney is something they take very seriously. Thousands of people enter the various parks every day. The worlds climate for hate dictates that every one must remain vigilant. Some security measures I have noticed which hadn’t existed prior to 9/11 are things like increased video surveillance and coded tickets which are matched with your finger print each time you enter.
One other inclusion into Disney’s security is the bag check once reserved for airports and federal buildings. Disney does have a better process - they have two lines, one for people with bags and one for the stream-lined traveler who is packed lite. (Read the rest of the story…)
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