Stating the Obvious Through the Ranks

Finally Over and a New Start

parksrj — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:52:35 +0000

It is finally over and I am finally divorced. It has been about a week now and I feel relieved!!! I have had many supporting friends and family through all of this so thanks to everyone! Terry has been there for me the most recently and I cannot thank her enough. She has been supportive and talked me through a lot of stuff and now we are together and having a great relationship!!!!! I look forward to our future together and all the great times we have ahead of us!!!!

IPOD

parksrj — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:03:04 +0000

So, I have always wanted an IPOD and now apple is coming out with a new one on Sept 28th and I am trying to decide if I get one do I get the 8 gb or 16 gb. Then on top of it I really like the IPHONE but if I get an IPHONE do I need an IPOD? So many decisions so if anyone has any thoughts on the above let me know.

Also the Hurricanes are getting spanked right now 14-3 start of 2nd qtr. GO CANES!!!!!

Busy 2 Weeks

parksrj — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:45:57 +0000

Well I went and did my field exercise as the S-6 and it went pretty well, but I am still waiting to get my evaluation from the Captain that was in charge of me. They said in the beginning I had the best presentation so far, so I figured it could only get better. Other than that the week just finished off with a bunch of classes that we all just wanted to gouge our eyes out afterwards. Then it was time for the 96!

I headed down to FL to visit family and had a friend pick me up from the airport and had a great time. It was like we had never seen each other as much talking as we did so, it made the trip from Orlando to Vero Beach go a lot quicker with someone to talk to and just laugh at ever little stupid thing you do. Once we got into town we met my parents for lunch and then when out to dinner with my sister and brother-in-law. The rest of the night was just going to a few bars and hanging out with friends. My friend and I did get our butts kicked in darts but won at pool at one of the bars. Pretty much the rest of the weekend was hanging out with my friend and visiting family. It always sucks though when the weekend has to end, and your friends and family have to go back to work and leave ya to yourself. Then Tues it was back to the airport, but this time my dad had to take me since me friend had to go back to work on Tues so it was not as fun but a nice time to spend with my dad.

I get back to VA and realize that my flight left from Dulles when I left so my car was there, and my return flight went into Reagan which sucked cause I had to make my way over to Dulles and then finally go home. Oh well so is life, the important thing is I had a great time seeing my family and hanging out with my friend who I had not seen in forever it seemed.

Now we continue the rest of this week and look forward to the weekend!!

Finally Clean

parksrj — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:39:39 +0000

Today I finally went out and cleaned my car and I mean cleaned it. I first went out there thinking I was just going to empty it out and then take it some where and get it washed and the basics. Well I kept picking at the inside and the next thing I know I am detailing my car on the inside (which it needed). I thought it is a nice day I should try to get some sun before I go to FL and get made fun of for being white, and yeah you guessed I am fried on my back now. Oh well so is life but the car is clean and that is good.

The family I am staying with went to the Kenny Chesney concert and could not get enough tickets, so they asked if I would watch one of there kids and I said it would not be a problem. Well we went and had some pizza and saw Ratatouille which I was told he would like (he’s 5) and yeah it was over his head. Within one hour he was saying he was bored, tired and is it almost over. Anyway the important thing is we had a good time.

Tomorrow my weekend ends and I have to get back to getting ready for the field exercise for which I am the S-6 so I will tell you all about it once I get back. I hope it goes well!!!!

WOW!!! Busy

parksrj — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:32:06 +0000

I am taking my second test this week and it is only the 6th out of 12 tests. So tonight I have been studying for this and I have been trying to also do my Comm Plan for being the S-6 for next week. By the end of this week (which is tomorrow thank goodness) I will be ready for the weekend and look forward to sleeping in on Saturday. Ok enough about work now.

Recently in my personal life all kinds of things have been going on and I want to thank all of my friends and family that have been there more than I could have ever imagined. You realize how your true friends are when times get tough and they have been around so all I can say is thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Once all of next week is over I am heading to FL on Saturday for a four day weekend (much needed) to see some of those family and friends I have spoken about above. So, if you are going to be around the hometown let me know and we will try to get together in that short amount of time. Well time to get back to studying so I can pass these stupid tests!!!

S-6

parksrj — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:10:26 +0000

So today we go an order for a field exercise on Monday and when they were through they gave the billets out for the 3 locations, and what do you know I am the S-6 (Communcaitons Officer) for the group. So, this means I get to plan out how everything is going to be set-up, who goes where, how to accomplish the given mission in the time period I am given. The nice thing about this is it is only dealing with radios, since we have not gotten to the data and switching yet. Now after this I will only have one more billet for the rest of the time here at school. This does mean tomorrow and Friday are going to be pretty crazy trying to get everything accomplished by Friday so no one will have to come in over the weekend to finish it up.

Other than that school is going pretty well, and I found out at the end of last week I am going to Camp Lejeune for 3 years which I am happy about. Keeps me closer to my family and friends in FL. Well I should probably get back to some planning so I go into work tomorrow with some things for the Marines to do, plus I need to be gone by 0430 to be at the gym by 5. Until next time this is 2nd MLG’s logo……..

I am back

parksrj — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:22:24 +0000

It has been a while but I am back and I will be blogging a lot more than I did before. If anyone ever has any questions about Communication in the Marine Corps or wanna hear about anything else going on just let me know and I will be more than happy to discuss it. Well time to look around here and make some changes.