Blog Posts

Frustrations about IRR-activated soldiers arriving at units in Iraq to find no open positions or jobs matching their MOS, despite being called up as critically needed.

A heads up about Iraq changing clocks and how it affects the time difference for families expecting calls from deployed soldiers.

I think many people who favor the immediate pullout of our forces from Iraq believe that our presence here is not protecting US citizens from attacks (and surely many have other reasons for wanting us to leave, but …

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 …

Moving to a new base in Iraq after our convoy was hit by a roadside bomb, and settling into new accommodations.

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 …

Announcing the new ArmyAdvice.org domain and offering free blog space for soldiers to share their deployment experiences.