Name Changed to Protect the Idiot

I was talking to a friend the other day about one of her family members. The family member exhibits sociopathic behavior. That got me thinking about an incident that happened during our time at Ft. Lewis.

Sgt. Snuffy shows up late for formation one day covered in blood and dirt. He tells an epic story of how he happened upon an accident on the Hwy that runs along the back side of Ft. Lewis. He found a car that left the roadway and the driver had been thrown partially through the windshield. He proceeded to render aid.

He removed the driver from the windshield and extracted a huge piece of the windshield from drivers (this is not a good idea) chest. Authorities arrived and the driver was transported to the hospital and Sgt. Snuffy was a HERO!

He received a unit citation and a few months later the unit was contacted by a national TV Show. Well, it seems they wanted to do a segment on Sgt Snuffy and were in the area doing research for said segment. This was in the days before HIPPA. If you wanted to find out names and conditions of accident victims from the hospital/fire/police depts it was no problem. They checked with all the local authorities and could not establish that an accident had occurred on that stretch of road on that date. They wanted to let the Battalion know that this "event" never happened.

That would have been nice to know before the Battalion Commander requested another award at Brigade level. Oops.

We never did find out where all that blood came from.

Thank You For Your Service

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My Friend Is Having A Contest

Mom, who runs the "from the mind of a Mom" blog is hosting a give away. She is giving away a bunch of Blink cleaning products.
Blink makes "autocentric" cleaning products. They sound really great for cleaning up after long road trips with the kids. You know, like after they have spilled whatever they were eating and rubbed their hands all over the upholstery and windows.
I want them, I need them....ohhh I hope I win.
Check out her site and enter to win while you are there.
http://meonlydifferent.blogspot.com

The 25th Anniversary Trip to Hawaii

our trip to Hawaii

This trip was taken in May. We had a blast. It was the honeymoon we should have went on when we got married. But, ya know....I think I enjoyed myself much more now that I'm older. Plus there was money to burn. Glad we went when we did. Thank you honey.

If I ever get to go again I'll be doing all my shopping at the stadium

Moron this later Update

Ok, so i said I was going to talk about this later and I guess this is later enough already.

My specialist E-4 came home one day and said there would be a Class A inspection the next day and would I sew the unit patch on the the sleeve of his class A jacket?
Sure, no problem honey. I'm good at that sort of thing and a bit anal about that kind of stuff.

Well it was a little more difficult than I thought it would be. Getting the needle and thread thru the lining and jacket and then through the thick patch. I managed and soon had the patch sewn on in the correct spot all lined up perfectly and my stitches so small you need a magnifying glass to see them.

So, off he goes to formation the next morning....everything on his uniform was perfect.......except the patch. It was inside out. Poor hubby was the joke of the day. Seems neither one of us noticed this. In my defense the patch appeared to be the same on both sides.

That's when hubby started taking his uniforms to the cleaners and paying them a small fee to sew on patches. To this day I wonder if I subconsciously did this just to get out of that particular chore?

Molly

This is your local recruiter calling.....

Hubby got a call the other day from a local Army recruiter. Seems they still have hubby on the IRR list. He was just "checking in".

I can't wait 'til he calls back and I get to explain that dh is medically retired with a 50% disability.
Therefore, he is non-deployable.

ROTC Summer Camp

This "movie" reminds me of one time when dh was stationed at Ft. Lewis. He was in Field Artillery at the time and one of the tasks for the summer was helping to run the summer camp for ROTC cadets from the western states. This is a sort of pre officer basic course that cadets attend prior to graduation from college and selection for active/reserve as well as branch placement.

The cadets were tested on aptitude and the like and also attended "classes" and presentations put on by various units on post at the time.

My dh was involved with a skit type presentation on the 155 howitzer. Because they weren't allowed to actually fire a cannon off at the class area he wondered how he was going to impress upon these young minds the danger and power of such a weapon.....household 6 to the rescue.

I bought a bag of little green army men and made a sort of diorama before and after if you will. Before we see the platoon posed in their normal duty positions. After we see the mayhem and destruction caused by Artillery...hooah go REDLEGS

I had a lot of fun chopping limbs off the plastic men and painting blood splatter around the aftermath example.

It was a huge hit with the guys in the unit and the cadets. One Lt. Colonel thought that it was "really sick...I like it" I took that as a complement. Anyway, this clip sent me down memory lane.