I sit here, no I am laying here in my bed listening to music on my iPad typing this post to my blog on the same iPad thinking about Marie and the kids wondering what they will be doing when they wake up. It's about 0600 in the morning in Savannah and I am sure the kids are on summer schedule by now sleeping in till noon or so. I miss them all the time and it get so much harder the closer you get to going home. I can't help but to think of how things will be once I get home, kids are older I know they are more independent and I know Marie has been running things on her own and doing a great job. Shirley has really stepped up to help around the house and from what I hear has really taken a liking to cooking healthy. I look forward to having her cook some home cooked meals but I also look forward to taking them all out and eating at some of our favorites around Savannah.
I don't know if you all are tracking but I was able to hand pick this team from the entire Battalion, I was able to bring with me all of the people that I wanted to deploy with. Task Force Viper is the best group of folks I could ever hope to spend time with down range. These guys and gals are some of the finest sons and daughters our country has to offer and it's been my pleasure to serve with them. This morning we had the pleasure of promoting one of our specialist to Seargent, Seargent Spence he is our para legal. Spence has an amazing story, you see he has his doctorate and he was a practicing attorney in his home town. But Spence wanted to be a soldier, when he went to the recruiter they tried to give him a direct commission to Captain so he could operate as an attorney on active duty. Spence wanted nothing to do with it, he wanted to be a soldier, he wanted to go infantry but they would not let him based on his age. He is an amazing person and I am lucky to know him, he has given up so much to do what he feels is what every American should do for his country. I could not agree more, we have talked Spence into going green to gold once we get home and to serve the army in another way, he will be an attorney again. He is truly an inspirational man and so many people have learned so much from him and his positive attitude and how he deals with every task laid in front of him.
Well it's going on 1600 and I need to start bringing this post to an end, I have found that the time I spend jotting these notes on here helps so much with everything that I do over here. I spend so many hours a day listening to so many people talk about everything that is bothering them, I am the oldest guy in our Task Force and with that seems to have come and additional duty that I will always be there to listen to anyone who needs to talk. It's a task that I know is needed and I try to always make myself available when anyone needs to talk or vent, it helps me as well. I sometime get a great big dose of reality and a sanity check as to what is really important and the fact that some things in life are really just not that important. We all have problems, and we all try to deal with them the best we can, but some times we just have to concede that some things are just out of our control. Life will go on and things will get better and sometimes you just have to have faith that things will work out. Night all
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