Imagine my utter shock when I was perusing through my RSS feeds and realized that I was reading a post from Uncle Jimbo, quoting my post in which I quoted BlackFive.
It was instantaneous blogger groupie swoon . . .
Okay, completely unbecoming of an officer, but I admit it, I’m flattered.
I’ve been [...]

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I love my job, but give me half the chance (or less) I would head to Afghanistan. I would happily give up my CPT tracks to, once again, be part of a MEDEVAC unit as a flight medic. YES, UNCLE SUGAR, that means I would volunteer.
“As soon as the bombs were dropped, our [...]

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As I had nothing better to occupy my over-taxed emo brain today, I started looking for an old Air Force friend from Fort Irwin (yup, one of about 10 AF guys on post). Instead, I came across PJCountry written by two reserve PJs and ventured an email to the authors:
Hey guys…
Was looking [...]

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This makes my heart heavy.

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Summer Reading

In my post “Nurses Who Sacrificed for Freedom” over at NursingJobs.org, I mentioned some great books about nurses who served in the military. Here are more books on the same topic which are part of my personal library:

AND IF I PERISH: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II
by Evelyn M. Monahan [...]

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Wow, I had an absolutely awesome time doing the radio show “Frontlines of Freedom” last night. I will get a link to the podcast up as soon as it appears.
Wanted to say thanks to you all (Greybeard, Epi, JS, and Nick) and anyone else who caught it.
Denny—-thanks so much for having me! [...]

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Tonight at 1800 EST (that is 6:00 p.m. for all you civilian types) I will be interviewed by LTC (ret) Denny Gillem on his show Frontlines of Freedom which is on WOOD NEWSRADIO. We will be chatting about being an active duty medic, my involvement in training medics in the Army Reserves, being a [...]

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Hanger shadow,
originally uploaded by crzegrl15.

Winds are too crazy today. Gonna keep my feet on the ground.

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Surprise Honor for West Michigan WWII Veteran
Nick Monacelli
Created: 5/4/2008 7:45:59 PM
This is an incredible story that happened during my last Army Reserve Battle Assembly (aka: drill weekend). Awesome to have two heros from the same family honored on the same day.
Just a note: Unbeknownst to me, I was taped shaking hands with Tech [...]

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