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Edit: bah, nevermind. stupid yuppies.  Just wanted to say that "hippies" are not the same as "yuppies".. Yuppies are just young profesionals, which is sorta what I am as an electrical engineer, as much as it pains me to say so. Sigh. Too much time in front of this CAD program today.. Parade...

W - warfare

Wicked! A couple years ago I picked up a french press made of good old Lexan at MEC.. It's been on all my camping trips ever since and has served me well...

Thought today's Dilbert comic was fitting. Don't quite consider myself a "Decorated Army Combat Veteran", but having been on Archer 0 and coming back to starting an engineering job, I know the feeling....

You know, I got a similar line from the family when I joined, I got it when I announced that I was slated to deploy to Kandahar. I got a tonne of care packages while I was in Afghanistan, and I got that line again after getting back. You're probably not going to change your family's views, and...

It's always horrible when a soldier dies, but having it from friendly fire always hits hard in a different away... RIP Mark.

I feel more likely to get shanked walking 15 minutes from where I park my jeep to my respectable civvie electrical engineering job downtown and back every day than I did getting hurt on KAF when I was there. Maybe that's just my perception having been there, both inside and outside various wires...

Could be worse.. wait till more people get attacked by the manbearpig:

skipping Merrily along

IIRC a KBR worker was paralyzed, and another injured in a rocket attack on KAF in July '05, right when Archer 0 was starting to hit the ground. So it can happen, but I'm going to tend to agree with GO!!! on this one. It's bad ass luck if you get hurt by a rocket, and yes people do occasionally...

Schrödinger had a cat.

strangely

large

right

fourth world war

the space monkeys

a sticky situation.

cactus skins

go

I was on Archer Roto 0, and many good friends went on Roto 1.. There were many times after I got back that I wished I could have stayed another 6 to have been with them.