I'm a New York City native who sold his soul to Uncle Sam for the price of law school tuition. Currently serving as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army with a field artillery unit out of Fort Hood, Texas.
I'm going to try to write some notes as I go about my business over the next year -- more for myself than anyone else...something to help massage the aging memory cells when I want to look back at this tour.
The other reason for this blog is to help paint a picture of what life is like in a deployed combat arms unit. For my fellow colleagues, nothing here will be new or extraordinary. But for my friends and loved ones back home, this may be the first, truly detailed account of "Army life" they've ever heard from me.
I've chosen to not include my parents in my circulation of emails. They're worried to death about me as it is, and are able to find comfort in the prospect that maybe as an executive officer for a field artillery unit, I'll be relegated to sitting in the rear inside the wire for the entire year. I'm happy to perpetuate this myth in their minds, but should the worst happen, this will at least stand as a record of my thoughts and feelings for them, after the fact.
I'm going to throw out a disclaimer right now: I'm going to be true and honest in this thing. I don't want to dilute or distort anything, and I won't apologize for language or anything upsetting that may end up here. If things turn sour, you'll know it. If things are peachy, you'll know it. If things are just downright ugly and nasty...you'll know it.
So here we go...
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