On Wednesday of last week I had to go back into the camp to drop of some personnel that needed to leave the field. Unfortunately I was not one of them. One SSgt was going back to Pendleton so that he could finish preparing for his PCS move out to Hawaii (lucky bastard). The other [...]
The field (at least in 29 Palms right now) is a hot dirty sweaty place and after a few days you really start to become ripe. You get so stinky that you can’t even stand your own smell. There are no bathrooms and hygiene facilities are nn existant. When you need to answer nature’s call [...]
As you may or may not know I am stuck in 29 Palms right now doing a Regimental field op. The ast week has had moment of excitement as well as boredom. We rolled out early Sunday morning and made a 2 and a half hour drive over 5 hours long (only Marines and grandams [...]
It really pisses me off when a Marine cannot live within his or her means. While the money that we make is not great, it is definitely enough to live on if you budget well and live with in your means. If you live in the barracks you have all your living expenses paid for. [...]
Everyone gather around, bring it in, school circle sit bend kneel it is time for SSgt story time as I am feeling nostalgic. It was a dark night (more like early morning actually) in Okinawa and me and my buddies were coming back onto camp Schwab but wait I am getting ahead of myself. For those of [...]
