Well, I’m home. I’m finally here in San Antonio, with Steph, and I have to admit there is no other place in the world I’d rather be. I am once again reminded that I am easily THE luckiest guy in the world.

Now that I am done with my deployment, I figured I would share what I have come to call the five stages of a deployment. I’m not a doctor and this isn’t a scientific conclusion, but it’s accurate as to my experience and I believe to the experience of others. Whenever anybody asks me how it was I usually share the “five stages” because that’s honestly how I felt. So here they are. The Five Stages of a Deployment. As I see it.

This is going to be short. I don’t have a lot of time to write because I have a ton of school work this week, but something happened today that I had to write about.

Today’s October 24th…which means it’s been two weeks since I’ve written here…which means one of two things:
1.) I have been real busy
or
2.) I haven’t done anything exciting
Truthfully, it’s a little of both. I have been real busy doing nothing exciting. So, in order to make sure I continue to update my blog I [...]

Ben Stein, the guy who said, “Bueller…Bueller,” has a new book out called The Real Stars. The Book is a collection of essays arguing that the real stars in the world are not the Hollywood types like Paris Hilton or Brad Pitt, but the men and women who wear the military uniform and fight [...]