Since before Christmas my wife has been expecting the passing of her grandmother. It has only been a matter of time. Today her time ran out and she has passed on. She has had Diabetes, heart problems, and a mild stroke about a year ago. Her health has been failing for some time and everyone is grateful she has held on this long. I don’t know the actual cause of death, however I do know I plan on being with my wife tonight as the funeral will be over the next 3 days. I don’t know what to expect however if anyone knows anything I would appreciate a quick lesson, I would ask my wife for some help but I am trying to keep her mind at ease and not stress her anymore.

No one gets away with more than I. I am a non Non-Commissioned Officer, a beast of burden. As a junior enlisted soldier I realize that I am a member of an under appreciated and much chastised group of soldiers known as the ribcage, or perhaps pancreas, of the Army.

I am proud of myself and my fellow Specialists who continue to bitch, whine, and sham until the absolute last second regardless of the mission at hand. I will use my grade and position to avoid responsibility, accountability, and any sense of presence of mind.

Ignorance is my watchword. My two best excuses will always be on the tip of my tongue : “I didn’t know!” And “It wasn’t me!” I will strive to maintain invisible and unavailable for details. Never ever volunteer for anything is my rallying cry. I am aware of my role as a SPC or SPC(P) and if you need me for anything, I’ll be on appointment. I know the other soldiers, and I will always refer to them by their first name or in some cases a derogatory nickname. On weekends or days off I will consistently drink myself into oblivion and I will never answer my phone. I understand for a person in hierarchical position rewards are going to be few and far between, and punishment will always be swift and severe.

Officers of my unit will have maximum time to accomplish their duties because I will be accomplishing them for them. I will kiss up to their faces and badmouth them behind their backs just like everyone else. I will be loyal to those with whom I serve. Provided that there is something in it for me. I am the last bastion of common sense that stand as a wall between me and the Army philosophy of “Work harder, not smarter!” My voice is a tool and my complaints are a weapon that I wield with unmatched skill and finesse. I will not forget, nor will I allow my comrades to forget, Specialist is the greatest rank in the Army. And rank has it’s privileges.

Found out today that the appeal to my Article 15 was denied. The overseeing COL didn’t give a reason, just signed the appeal and checked “no”. That was it. My 1SG however talked with the CSM about getting me to leave korea on the 20th when I was suppose to and the CSM told the 1SG to “handle it”. Which given the fact I got punished the worse, have a family here that I need to move, and have been continueing my extra duty even though I didn’t have too, I am being allowed to leave on time.

Went from being very depressed to relieved. Right now I want nothing more to PCS this place. I have been stationed here for 3 and a half years, never been in trouble until now, but never recieved an award either. Was recommended for an ARCOM, but the BC won’t sign it because I don’t have any AAM’s, and now because of this most recent incident won’t sign it because of the Article 15.

I just want to leave this place and hope and pray, this LT that started all this shit gets more than what is coming to her…., speaking of which…, anyone know how to get a hold of green peace in Korea? I have an unreported incident of US troops cutting down trees on video! Can’t charge me twice for the same thing!

I have placed the Rappelling video on YouTube now for those that prefer using YouTube.

If your a regular, and I know I don’t have many, you may have noticed that this site and a couple of my other sites were down for the past 12-24 hours or so.

The reason for this is because I have switched my hosting providers. I have been hosted with Godaddy.com for a while now. There servers have caused some problems with some of my scripts and did not support a multi-language SQL database. This has been a big problem seeing one of the domains that I do have is all in Korean. It has been down since I have been hosted with GoDaddy.

I am now hosted with IX Web Hosting which has been rated #1 all across the internet. One of the main reasons I actually picked them was the fact that they are in Hopkinsville, KY which is about 20 minutes from Fort Campbell. This will be beneficial to me because if the weather is bad and the power is out it may have an effect on the speed of the site. It also means that if and when they piss me off I can pay a visit. Not that I ever will, but the thought amuses me.

They are rated the best on multiple web sites, and their hosting packages are very nicely packaged. I got the business package at $6.45 a month. Which I think is very reasonable. I now have 300GB of webspace, 1.5TB of bandwidth, 5,000 e-mail addresses with 2GB each, 100 MySQL databases, and all the plugins and server requirements I need for all of my sites in the same place. I have room to grow as well. The problem that I have with this package is I am only allowed to host up to 8 domains. Leaving my room to grow to only one domain. I have a thought of an 8th website to build but it would require myself to maintain more often than I would be able to. We will see over time, but its a site would really like to create.