Hockey, Football, Music, Tattoos, Military, Army, Sports, Movies, Shopping, Animals, Swimming, Pool, Beach, Hiking, Sleep
I am looking to meet friends, deployment makes friends disappear real quick and it gets lonely over here. :) ____________________________________________________________ "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." John Stuart Mill
Neil Diamond, Lonestar, Fort Minor, Good Charlotte, Jet, Jodee Messina, Johnny Cash, Rammstein, The Sounds, Flogging Molly, Bowling For Soup, All American Rejects, Jimmy Eat World, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Panic! At The Disco, AFI, Billy Idol, Black Eyed Peas, Blink 182, Brand New, Fall Out Boy, The Killers, Gorillaz, Green Day, Gwen Stefani/No Doubt, Hoobastank, Joan Jett, Kelly Clarkson, LeAnn Rimes, Linkin Park, Pat Benetar, Pink, Poison, Relient K, Savage Garden, Shania Twain, Simple Plan, Styx, Trick Pony, Evenescence
Righ tnow my favorite movie, hands down, would be The Illusionist with Edward Norton and Jessica Biel.... otherwise I typically like comedies such as 40 Year Old Virgin, Napoleon Dynamite, Dodgeball, Billy Madison, Water Boy, Wedding Crashers, The Break Up, The American Pie Movies and Wet Hot American Summer, action movies such as All three Blade movies, SWAT, Mind Hunters, and The Rundown, as well as horror movies such as Dawn of the Dead, Hide and Seek, The Final Destination Movies, and 28 Days Later
Arrested Development, Friends, Family guy, Futurama, Will and Grace, Sex and the City, Simpsons, Robot Chicken, The Oblongs, Sports Center, Whose Line Is It Anyways, American Dad, Charmed, Scrubs
Dean Koontz, Steven King, Ann Rule
All American Military personnel …especially the Airman who wrote this piece on Military Pay: Ms Cindy Williams (from Laverne and Shirley TV show) wrote a piece for the Washington Times, denouncing the pay raise(s) coming service members' way this year -- citing that the stated 13% wage was more than they deserve. A young airman from Hill AFB responds to her article below. He ought to get a bonus for this. "Ms Williams: I just had the pleasure of reading your column, "Our GI's earn enough" and I am a bit confused. Frankly, I'm wondering where this vaunted overpayment is going, because as far as I can tell, it disappears every month between DFAS (The Defense Finance and Accounting Service)and my bank account. Checking my latest earnings statement I see that I make $1,117.80 before taxes. After taxes, I take home $874.20. When I run that through the calculator, I come up with an annual salary of $13,413.60 before taxes, and $10,490.40, after. I work in the Air Force Network Control Center where I am part of the team responsible for a 5,000 host computer network. I am involved with infrastructure segments, specifically with Cisco Systems equipment. A quick check under jobs for Network Technicians in the Washington, D.C. area reveals a position in my career field, requiring three years experience with my job. Amazingly, this job does NOT pay $13,413.60 a year. No, this job is being offered at $70,000 to $80,000 per annum...I'm sure you can draw the obvious conclusions. Given the tenor of your column, I would assume that you NEVER had the pleasure of serving your country in her armed forces Before you take it upon yourself to once more castigate congressional and DOD leadership for attempting to get the families in the military's lowest pay brackets off of WIC and food stamps, I suggest that you join a group of deploying soldiers headed for AFGHANISTAN; I leave the choice of service branch up to you. Whatever choice you make, though, opt for the SIX month rotation: it will guarantee you the longest possible time away from your family and friends, thus giving you full "deployment experience." As your group prepares to board the plane, make sure to note the spouses and children who are saying good-bye to their loved ones. Also take care to note that several families are still unsure of how they'll be able to make ends meet while the primary breadwinner is gone -- obviously they've been squandering the "vast" piles of cash the government has been giving them. Try to deploy over a major holiday; Christmas and Thanksgiving are perennial favorites. And when you're actually over there, sitting in a foxhole, shivering against the cold desert night; and the flight sergeant tells you that there aren't enough people on shift to relieve you for chow, remember this: trade whatever MRE (meal-ready-to-eat) you manage to get for the tuna noodle casserole or cheese tortellini, and add Tabasco to everything. This gives some flavor. Talk to your loved ones as often as you are permitted; it won't nearly be long enough or often enough, but take what you can get and be thankful for it. You may have picked up on the fact that I disagree with most of the points you present in your opened piece. But, tomorrow from KABUL, I will defend to the death your right to say it. You see, I am an American fighting man, a guarantor of your First Amendment rights and every other right you cherish. On a daily basis, my brother and sister soldiers worldwide ensure that you and people like you can thumb your collective nose at us, all on a salary that is nothing short of pitiful and under conditions that would make most people cringe. We hemorrhage our best and brightest into the private sector because we can't offer the stability and pay of civilian companies. And you, Ms. Williams, have the gall to say that we make more than we deserve? Rubbish! A1C Michael Bragg Hill AFB AFNCC