Officers in the mist….

| April 23, 2012

Living with officers in a hooch, I can’t help but feel like Jane Goodall or whatever her name was.  The officer class is an inscrutable race.  I live with 5 O4’s, an IG, G2, JAG, PAO and Chaplain.  The Chaplain has been remarkably tolerant.  One should never get 3 Mass guys together around a chaplain who isn’t deaf.

However, I was absolutely delighted by the literally 2 hours of talk about poops they had taken in the past that we had last night, and I am holding my own in Gay Chicken.  (For those that don’t know what that is, you do something gay, and the dude either ups it, or flinches.  For instance, patting a guy on the knee and then sliding your hand up the inside of his leg during IED lanes training.)

So, the MRAP rollover thing.  Yeah, that sucked.  We missed the TTP where you put the smallest person up in the turret, and instead, a 250lbs dude fell into my lap.  I braced my arm on the roof, and nearly broke my ulna.  Good times, good times.  I tried to upload the video to YouTube, but it didn’t work.

Anyway, I am headed downrange, and just checking in from the O’Hare Airport of Afghanistan, as I wait to fly back on the exact same friggin route I flew to get here, but which will stop at my actual destination.  I should be with the men of Able Company 3-66 AR by somepoint tonight.

Miss the wife and (gay) dogs, but the rest is all well.

 

Category: TSO Embedded in A'stan

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Jon The Mechanic

Welcome to the suck. If I had known what time your flight was getting in, I would have met you at the Bagram Pax terminal to welcome you.

Parachute Cutie

Sorry for all of the frustration but happy that there is some movement going on.

Jon The Mechanic

Stop in at the Pat Tillman USO in the next 45 minutes and look for the big bald guy wearing the AMC patch near the door to the computer room.

Frankly Opinionated

“Gay” dogs? Just because Mosby “likes” the mailman doesn’t make him gay, in and of itself……..

NHSparky

TSO–what if I told you I knew a guy who knew a guy who had a cousin who might be able to get you in to play Gay Chicken with a carboard cutout of Tom Brady?

Interested?

Marine_7002

@3 Parachute Cutie: from the sounds of it, the only movement he’s really having is a bowel movement.

Hondo

Marine_7002: Damn, ya mean no one told him it’s best to decline an invitation to sample the ANA chow?

Marine_7002

Hondo: maybe he won’t have a choice, if no one will play nice and give him his favorite MRE.

Green Thumb

Must have missed this game..

Bummer.

Guess I was busy with other things.