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Things are going fine here. Getting settled in, have everybody here now that’s not on leave. Was out talking to my commander and the other LTs in the company tonight and when we got up to leave (after dark) we …

Moved to a new home a few days ago. On the trip here our convoy was hit by a roadside bomb, injuring two of my fellow soldiers. Both will return to duty soon, though, as neither was very serious. It was a wake-up call, …

I admit it, I've never been a big fan of the DataReader. There are

A few weeks ago a new building completed construction at FOB Caldwell. The Hickory Cafe (30th BCT’s tagline is “Old Hickory”) provides a Starbucksesque atmosphere and serves a few flavors of coffee that …

An awesome rock band for anybody interested in such things is Redshift. Their song Infamy got a ton of play time on local stations back a couple of years ago (about a year after 9/11). At the time I really liked it …

In this article I'll describe the process I went through to create a control for choosing days of the week. The need driving this is the creation of an admin program that allows certain tasks to be scheduled for certain …

I’ve registered ArmyAdvice.org and mapped my ArmySteve.com domain to it. If you’re just interested in me, you’ll want to go to http://armyadvice.org/ArmySteve/. The main url at http://ArmyAdvice.org/ …

For those wondering how long mail takes, I got 2 letters and 2 packages today (9/10), 3 of which were sent on 8/26 and one on 8/28. So 13-15 days. I had some time today to play around a bit with the look my section of …

Here’s some gadgets that are nice to have: Laptop. Yes, bring one. They’re great for watching movies on and you may have the opportunity to use it for email, webcam, computer games, etc. MP3 Player. If you …

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