The dress Class A uniform did well. I need to get my service ribbon and stripe sewn on, but other than that I was squared away. I worked damn hard at it too! It's tough to be dating a non-squared away soldier. Seriously tough. Especially when the ex just became an E6, and is only 22, and IS squared away. The food was great. The time was spent well, during the work day and after. Then came St. Paul/Minneapolis.

It is entirely possible to have one's ass hurt from sitting on it too long. I don't get how couch potatoes can do it. I simply can't. It was a 9 hour bus ride to St. Paul after the C130 broke down the evening before we were scheduled to ride it up. BRRRR! I am SO freaking glad it broke down. Give me a sore ass to a freezing cold trip in an ancient piece of military junk ANY day. Those things aren't heated. And there isn't any protection from the sound either. Yeah. No thank you.

SRP went amazingly well. They really learned their lesson from the previous year! The Mall of America was the same, and just as boring. I brought my swimsuit but didn't use it in the hotel pool. I roomed with the old roommate, and we actually *gasp* talked. For as long as we roomed together at Ft. Bragg, we existed in a largely silent truce-of-war, it seems. Because we get along oh so much better now. Maybe it was the mobilization/900-miles-away-from-home stress thing. Dunno. Don't care. Just glad I had a roommate! The odd-out female (an NCO) got her own room, which only seemed fair due to rank and all.

But an on_orders trip with my unit never seems to fail to reveal the dumbasses for who they are. I'm not sure what happened but hotel property was damaged. I slept like a lamb, of course. My roommate came home Uber-drunk, but we didn't cause a ruckus ever. But these idiots, including a newly promoted E-5 (Sergeant) (as in newly promoted on FRIDAY) Tuesday night got into trouble. And today the entire company was lectured. Something about not wanting bad apples to ruin the whole crop, from the First Sergeant, but that we *all* needed to "Look out for each other" more so this crap didn't happen.

Begin rant: WHAT THE FUCK DO THEY WANT?! These guys (yes all guys) are in their EARLY TWENTIES. They got over needing a babysitter the minute they put the freaking uniform on. The fact that they are STILL IN THE FUCKING ARMY after all the crap they've done in my 3 years of being with the unit astounds me. I'm itching to ask if they were given counseling statements. And then I began to wonder what would happen to a newly promoted E5 on Active Duty who destroyed hotel property and acted unprofessionally while on TDY orders. FUCKING EH!!!!

I get pissed when I'm threatened with a lockdown on behalf of irresponsible bumble-fuck hicks from the backroads of Illinois that can't get through a 24 hour period without their alcohol. I detest dependency. And I seriously dislike those that cannot act seriously when needed. So I'm left wondering how I could broach this subject with the First Sergeant, and if I was not satisfied with how the soldiers in question were dealt with, who at Battalion I would share my concerns with. Because if these soldiers DIDN'T get a counselling statement, I'm gonna be even more angry. Here is my solution to the problems created by problem soldiers: get their problems onto paperwork (counseling statemetns referencing specific incidents) and when the company goes somewhere, those soldiers who have these types of on_orders counseling statemetns can get put on lock down, rewarding the good behavior soldiers and fucking the dumb fucks.

We flew to Peoria in a DC-9, which was nice. Heat!!!! Noise protection!!! It was only an hour flight. Get that? 9 hour bus ride = 1 hour flight on the dumbass roads of the midwest! The scary part was the landing. Maybe navy boys shouldn't be pilots. That was the bumpiest landing I've ever had, and I've flown at least 10 times in my military career on civilian airliners. Pieces of the plastic molding FELL OFF the interior of the plane it was such a hard landing. But compared to a C130, really, I'm not complaining. Not at all.

You are Taki

Admired for your style and fresh approach to life, you are the Japanese femme fatale! Deceivingly innocent, you are actually a devil in disguise. You love to show off, but behind that flamboyant and sometimes uncaring personality, you definately care for and stand up for your friends. Just one flaw, you can be annoyingly hyper and bouncy!! However this can be just what a friend needs after a boring day.

Which Soul Calibur character are you?
this quiz was made by david park

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