Ugh, what to say about myself and how to say it without revealing just how arrogant I am? I am a proud flag-waving member of the United States Army… though most days it seems they are trying to drive me to drink. As a soldier I work everyday to be the best example of a leader to my soldiers. Dispensing advise, solutions to problems, training, praise, rewards, and when needed, corrective training or "punishment" to civilans, as fairly and impartially as possible.
I work my ass off not only in my specific job but in my job as a leader. Not for myself, not for praise or shiny things to hang off my uniform, but for the soldiers, to do my best to insure all they have to worry about is the simple things. To teach, train and guide them to be better. Hopefully one or two things stick with em. Maybe when they are NCO's I'll be part of that little voice pushing them higher and farther for the sake of their soldiers.My personal life..haha welcome to the dark side. My organized and responsible self waves bye-bye and patiently waits for me until the next day, when I shed off my uniform. Now I'll be the first to admit I'm no Molly Homemaker and I can be as lazy and cluttered as the next guy. Much to the angst of my wife. Yet I realize tomorrow is another day, and I'm still swinging, some days I am purely in spite of myself. I consider the city I am stationed in to be the biggest pimple on the devil's ass. The only redeeming quality of this place is.....uh...wait there is no redeeming quality. I swear upon all that is holy and right that I shall do my best not to cross east of the Mississippi and south of the Mason-Dixon Line. I know thats a pretty big area, but that is how deep my loathing for my current residence is. Now that we have gotten that little duality out of the way. I am fairly tall, moderately easy on the eyes. Athletic and in very good shape (my two mile run time is in the low 14 minutes) very alpha, and though I look younger than my real age, I feel much older ("its not the years honey, its the mileage").
To the rare few that truely get to know me I'm witty in a sarcastic way, I usually laugh at myself more than others, caring, helpful, and a good listener. I handle stress like a saint (ask me about when my father suddenly passed away as proof.) and therefore am the one everyone expects to keep cool and stay calm when everything goes to hell in a hand-basket. I have a nasty habit of finding myself in charge or leading things.
Not in a childish "I'm better than everyone else, therefore I'm the leader" sort of way. More like I make suggestions, be as helpful as I can, blink and suddenly find everyone looking at me for direction and answers. For all the people who have told me I am a natural born leader, I hope they never realize that half the time I am as uncertain and scared as everyone else, I guess I just hide it better....or maybe they already do? I am a huge computer geek and love to play video games, they are the second best form of stress relief. Explaining the best form would require me to give you a lecture on the birds and the bees. I already have to do that once when my child is old enough, please do not make me suffer twice in my life time. I enjoy playing sports more than watching them, and anything outdoorish, bow hunting (using rifles is too easy), hiking and camping, target shooting with just about anything that goes "BANG", though sadly to say I cannot grill to save my life.
I love to read, hell I'll read insurance pamphlets that are laying around. Military history being my favorite subject, but my library is large and eclectic. I love to sing and luckily no one has died from it yet. I miss my days of drama class in school. I always wanted to play in Taming of the Shrew. I love to laugh, dance, giggle, and make others laugh (though if my soldiers heard you say that they would all agree you were on extremely heavy medication and should be under the care of a professional psychologist.) I am very intelligent, sharp of wit and observant. Though I try to keep it hidden under a guise of grunting, snarling, and dull glazed looks. I have perfected the "fly catcher" look and use it daily on higher ranking NCO's and whenever an officer is within 10 feet of me. So far its worked, keep your fingers crossed for me. I can almost boil water without the use of the microwave or a telephone. My TV is usually on either the History Channel or the Cartoon Network, gotta love Samurai Jack and if I open a book and lay down on the couch, please for the sake of your sanity and my place in the book, do not expect me to move for several hours, possibly days.For all you non-vanilla types out there I'm a top. (Hahaha slipped that one in, lets see how many catch it). It it difficult for me to get to the point of calling someone "friend", but once I do you are my friend for life and I'll gladly give you the shirt off my back. It seems that I am a lone wanderer of the old road of chivalry, I open doors for women, offer them my arm in escort, always take my hat off indoors, and everything else that seems fewer and fewer men know how to do these days. Well thats surely enough babbling about me from me. If I left anything out and have questions just ask, I'm an open book.
Or at least I'll let you think I am.
