Jack and Frosty together again
Posted by Gypsy on Sep 30, 2006
My little brother came to town today. I haven’t seen the little shit in over two years, but he and a buddy were driving through on their way to Monteray for pre-deployment leave and stopped by for lunch. Jack is headed to visit his wife, whose in school there, and his friend was off to visit his family. It was great to see him. Except for him gaining weight and me losing some, it was like nothing had changed. We were back to making fun of each other and things from home in no time.
The thing that sucks is while I haven’t seen him in two years, today is the last time I will see him for at least another year since he’s off to Iraq in less than a month. I’ve already discussed how I feel about that. I hugged him extra hard before he left. One for me and another for my mom. I’m sure he’ll be fine while he’s gone, but I still worry about him.
Unfortunately, I’m mildly retarded and forgot to take a photo before he left. But probably a good thing as his ugly mug would’ve broken my camera. Hehehe.
“Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Your SUV”
Posted by Gypsy on Sep 29, 2006
Someone posted this on the message board I frequent and I thought it was pretty funny.
Good news, a concussion and a shout out
Posted by Gypsy on Sep 28, 2006
After working my ass off, my body finally sent me a big fuck you in the form of a migraine. But while I felt like absolute shit all of last night and part of this morning, it actually turned out great. I went to the doc and she gave me a shot of some awesome pain reliever and sent me home for the day. By the time I made it home I actually felt normal and it was great.
Of course, with things as they have been lately, even though I was finally getting a chance to rest, there was still work I had to do from home and email to the office and phone calls I had to make. Well, one of those phone calls made my day as it was to find out if I was moving or not. Turns out I get to stay here a little longer. At least until my medical evaluation board is complete. Makes me very happy as I’m not ready to move yet.
I also got to talk to my brother today. Turns out he won’t be able to go on leave before he goes to Iraq. Lucky for me, he will be coming to California to see his wife next weekend. He’s driving here with a friend and they will be passing right through Barstow on their way. So I’ll at least get to see him for lunch, which is great since I haven’t seen him in two years.
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My sister went and gave herself a concussion, proving by her clumsiness that she is indeed my sister. She plays for the school soccer team and is an amazing goalie. Unfortunately, her goal tending talent didn’t help her too much when she fell on her head the other day during a game and now she’s laid up at home with a concussion and can’t play for a week. Though I know my sister very well and I doubt hitting her head hurt anything. ;)
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Today is my dad’s birthday, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!!!!!!!
I won’t tell you how old he is, but not because he’s old but because I honestly can’t remember. (Sorry, Dad.)
Again the Army proves it can’t seem to pull its head out of its ass and why I hate DoD civilians
Posted by Gypsy on Sep 25, 2006
As many of you already know, I’m supposed to be moving to Fort Hood in two weeks. I say supposed to because things have changed and I might not be moving.
As many of you know, I’ve been having problems with my hip and lower back for well over a year now. I’ve been going to physical therapy and have done a ton of exercises to make it better but nothing has worked. The problem is my joints are very flexible, causing my hip to move when it’s not supposed to. At this point, my physical therapist says it’ll probably heal as I get older and my joints lose some flexibility, but until then I’m shit out of luck.
So after a year of failed treatments, I got sent to another doctor who wanted to give me a permanent profile allowing me to not do certain things that aggravate my hip, mainly lifting and sit-ups. The problem this brings is a no lifting profile means I can’t do something a basic as carrying a ruck sack with the required gear. Because of this, the doctor is required to refer to me to a medical evaluation board which will determine if I can stay in the Army based on this profile.
Here’s where the real issue comes in: my doctors want to complete the MEB here in California instead of wasting the money to move me to Fort Hood when I might not even stay in the Army. Since I already have orders to Fort Hood, I now have to jump through hoop after hoop to get those deleted, with no guarantee that will actually happen. At this point, I’m going everything I need to do to leave, while working on staying because if they decide to make me go, I don’t have a lot of time to prepare a move. That’s all the news that I have. I’ll have a more definitely answer later this week, hopefully.
To make matters worse, it would seem the people who run my office think me and my buddy AK can’t be trusted. Let’s ignore the fact that we have worked there longer than everyone and are the only people in the office who have secret security clearance. Let’s ignore the fact that the Army trusts us enough to be NCOs. Let’s ignore the fact that we know our job better than anyone else in the office. According to them we can’t be trusted. And to prove that they think that, last week they changed the locks and refused to give us keys. Then today we find out we aren’t allowed to stay in the office when there isn’t anyone else there. What the fuck???
Of course, those spineless, two-faced pricks would never admit to not trusting us. Or to the fact that they tried to trade the two of us, the only trained public affairs personnel and NCOs on top of that, for a private who isn’t PA trained and instead is an MP. Would someone please tell me the sense in that???
Honestly, I’ve never been treated so poorly in my entire life. I consider all this a slap in the face. Especially since I’ve never done anything to make myself seem untrustworthy. In fact, the people who are doing this to me and my coworker are the actual untrustworthy ones. They are the ones who just stole equipment from my unit, saying since we are going to turn it in anyway they might as well take it and use it. They can have it, but they should have to sign for it. Not steal it from us.
This is why I’m so against the Army replacing certain military positions with civilians. When my office was run by the military, none of this shit happened. Suddenly the majority of the military element is gone (all that’s left is us peons) and everything has gone to shit. I seriously could go on, but I’ll save that for another post.
