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Patrick

Life as an Army soldier

About Me

I have been in the Army for over 13 years, and have loved every minute of it. I am an Iraqi war vet, who spent 15 months in the largest catbox I have ever seen!!! Currently I am a recruiter here in Key West Florida, where I will be for the next 2 and 1/2 years.
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My Interests

Swimming, football, and finishing up my career in Washington state

I'd like to meet:

Anyone in the Keys area that has ever been interested in the Army and has questions about it.

Music:

Pretty much anything, it really just depends what kind of mood I am in.

Movies:

Goodfellas, Varsity Blues, Black Hawk Down, The Notebook...yes I am a bit of a softie I admit

Television:

WWE, Over There, Mind of Mencia

Books:

The DaVinci Code, anything from John Grisham

Heroes:

LTC Lawler and LTC Wetherington....they taught more about leadership while in Iraq then I had learned anywhere else

My Blog

The day after

I is the day after the 5th anniversary of that fateful day where I realized at some point in my career, I would in fact go to combat. I was hoping for the American media to at least for one day halt t...
Posted by Patrick on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:40:00 PST

Disappointed

In my 7 months of recruiting, I have never been more angry than I was today. I have a young man who is currently in the reserves and wants to go onto active duty status. His first sergeant was against...
Posted by Patrick on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 05:33:00 PST

Freedom

Today is our day of independance. This should be a day of remembrance of those that gave their lives for the very freedoms we enjoy today. Politics should not be an issue, nor should anything else for...
Posted by Patrick on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 04:40:00 PST

Recruiting Questions

Although I have only been doing this for a few months, I have gained alot of knowledge about being a recruiter, and what it means and takes to join this thing we call the Army. It is a job that I hone...
Posted by Patrick on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 05:33:00 PST