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Steve Smith's Army Blog
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I thought I'd post this so it isn't lost, as memory erodes. When I left to go to Iraq in 2004 my daughter had just turned 2. She's 5 now (soon 6) and doesn't remember a lot about when I was gone, but when asked last year what she did remember, Read More...
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Just wanted to say "Welcome Home" a bit late to all of the Vietnam Vets out there, after reading Bob Parsons' post on the subject . My uncle served in Vietnam and has never been much interested in talking about it, though my own Iraq experience Read More...
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ArmyAdvice and Christie and Ryan were mentioned in an article on deployments by Allison of CinCHouse, an online community for military wives and women in uniform. It's a good writeup about how technology can help ease the pain of deployments, especially Read More...
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A lot of officers are looking for information on how to resign, and unfortunately the Army doesn't make this easy to find (I can't imagine why...). Thus, I've posted my resignation letter (sanitized) for download in the downloads section of Read More...
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Like most of the media, my local paper tends to have a pretty strong bias against the conflict in Iraq (and, generally, any conflict) in its own editorials and those it chooses to print from national syndication, along with most Letters to the Editor. Read More...
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Associated Press | January 12, 2007 WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has abandoned its limit on the time a Citizen-Soldier can be required to serve on active duty, officials said Thursday, a major change that reflects an Army stretched thin by longer-than-expected Read More...
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Army Times wrote last week that the Army is going away from the awful "Army of One" slogan. The new slogan is still top secret, apparently, but we should see it all over when the media blitz commences in a few weeks. Personally I'm a fan Read More...
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Forgive my rant, but it annoys me that everybody in the Midwest and Northeast US is whining and going on about the big heat wave we had this week. My local newspaper yesterday had, as front page news, the temperatures in Philadelphia, New York City, etc, Read More...
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Every year or two I see this email come through. I haven’t checked Snopes to see if it’s all accurate, but if it is, it’s certainly worth a read. 4TH OF JULY Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration Read More...
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Great news for Iraq – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in a raid north of Baghdad recently. His own organization has confirmed the news (of course vowing to continue killing innocent Iraqis, etc. etc.). More from MSNBC: Al-Zarqawi and seven aides, Read More...
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I went out for my first experience with paintball this weekend with some friends. We had about 30 people, probably 2/3 of them teenagers, there at one of the players’ family’s country homes, with about 50 acres of land, probably half of that Read More...
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Retired General Batiste has been in the news a bit lately for his criticism of Rumsfeld, but seeing his photo lately reminds me of a rather humorous anecdote that occurred during my deployment in 2004 under the 1st ID. You can read the story as I originally Read More...
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Today is a good day. I submitted my resignation back in July 2005 when my 8 year commitment expired (I was commissioned in 1997). They told me at the time that it would take 4-6 months for the resignation to process and they were not exaggerating. The Read More...
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I was sitting out at the retrans camp for our base in central Iraq, north of Baghdad. This year, I'm sitting in my office in Ohio, having spent most of the last year back home re-normalizing. I have a few pictures with the date 12/19/04 on them of the Read More...
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This weekend we moved ArmyAdvice to a new software platform, Community Server 1.1 . The new software includes better support for blogs as well as better photo galleries and, best of all, forums . I've created a variety of discussion forums which I hope Read More...
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