The Great Bob Long and me at the NPS Tech Conference In Texas 

Dog House Paintball

It has been a long time since I have updated this site. A few soldiers and I have started a couple paintball teams and have been playing in tournaments in the Ft. Riley area. It is the perfect stress reliever. You can find out more on what we are doing at www.doghousepaintball.com. Our next tournament is in Lawrence, Kansas on June 3rd.

Lost but finding my way a little at a time.

I am half way thru my block leave and I am happy to say things are pretty normal again. I am not so uneasy around people and have relaxed a lot. I am also sleeping a lot better. I still feel guilty if I am still in bed at 730 in the morning. It is weird watching the news. I see what is going on in Iraq and cannot help but feel like I should be there doing something. I think being around my family has helped a lot though. I am happy I was able to come home and have them waiting for me. They have kept me so busy I have no choice but to get back to normalcy.

A New Adventure Begins

We all made it back to the states safely. For security reasons I did not even want to hint when we would be coming home. Now we have to integrate ourselves back into civilian and garrison life. It is so strange going from a up tempo environment to a laid back one. It has been and will be a uncomfortable transition but eventually in time all will be as it once was. I will continue to update this site on our new adventures. Also I am building a new site for a paintball team I am with some og our outstanding soldiers. The website is here. It should be up and running soon.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone. The year and our deployment is coming to an end. Internet access is pretty hard to get now so the postings have been scarce. It has been a long and interesting ride here in Iraq. I will be collecting up pictures I have taken as well as others and making some cd's and dvd's when we get back. I will make them available as soon as possible. Everyone is doing well even though we are all missing home during these holidays. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers. Happy Holidays everyone.

The Board

Recently our company sent some soldiers to the promotion board here on FOB Warhorse. Congrats go out to SPC(P) Sylvester, SPC(P) Peterson, SGT(P) Griffith, SGT(P) Gamez and myself for passing.

Also voting is over and the results for the contest will be available on the 10th of this month. Thanks to everyone who voted for us. There were a lot of entries so we are not sure what are chances are. But it was all in good fun so it doesn't really matter anyway. I will post the results as soon as I get them.

Vote Vote Vote

Our side product is finished. The crew of 65, Company Commander and SPC Kat have entered a contest to win a prize package from Microsoft. We need everyone's help to win. Please click here and vote a 10 for us. Please have friends and family do the same. The site keeps a tally of our score so everyone can keep up to date. I beleive you can only vote once from a computer but I will check on it. Wish us luck and thank you for your vote.

Happy Halloween

I hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday. We had a few of our soldiers go room to room looking for treats. I gave out a package of precooked beef and some mouthwash.
My crew is working on a top secret side project that will be completed in a day or two. We are going to need everyone's help to get the results we are looking for. I will post later today or tomorrow with instructions for who ever would like to participate.