Blog Posts

I managed to find a place to use the Internet at the Education Center on post. I’ll try to post something every few days while I’m here. I know several other LT’s and a great many more enlisted soldiers …

Michelle, Ilyana, and I got to St. Louis Friday night and drove the rest of the way to Ft. Leonard Wood on Saturday (May 22). We got in around 1300, met up with a sergeant I was supposed to call who took us to where …

Michelle writes a bit about the current, supposedly not involuntary, callup, here. An interesting set of comments can be found on OutsideTheBeltway. One quote includes: They are utilizing the IRR in three phases. Phase I …

Things have been getting increasingly stressful at the Smith house of late. This week we’re getting ready to close on a house we’re buying (closing tomorrow) with the intent of moving in once I return. We …

Prepping to deploy.

I got a memorandum yesterday from a local career counselor sergeant that had some very interesting news in it: _ “This office has received official notification that all current members of the IRR will be …

So, we got my uniforms out of storage last week and so today I finally went through the bins and found my old uniforms. Tried one on, and amazingly enough, it still fits! They do seem to have shrunk a bit in storage, …

Prepping for deployment.

Basically, the idea is that even a very short-term cache can make a

When I start talking about caching, I imagine that many people immediately stop listening, thinking " my situation requires up-to-the-minute data, so caching isn't an option". Consider the benefits of what I call 'micro …