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September 2005 - Posts

Stuff I'm gonna get, I think

http://www.garmin.com/products/etrexVista/ I'm broke, so this is about the cheapest GPS that has the features I want, which are MGRS support (Military grid reference system) ability to accept downloaded maps (detailed Iraq maps are all over the place) Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 29, 2005 10:56 PM by jfitzer | 2 Comments

Cpl. William A. Long... Rest in Peace, buddy...

http://www.militarycity.com/valor/927078.html Former fellow Honor Guard soldier, and one of many Honor Guard soldiers who used to get smashed in the hallways of the Old Guard and terrorise the local universities. I am relentless, I am always there Now Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 29, 2005 8:34 PM by jfitzer | 2 Comments

Great OP-ED article. If only my former roommate could understand it...

https://www.us.army.mil/suite/earlybird/Sep2005/e20050927393868.html Now, one particular part that I loved... As for the pathetic Ms. Sheehan, since she insists on speaking in the name of our troops, let me suggest that she does not even speak for her Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 27, 2005 11:40 PM by jfitzer | 3 Comments

Rotary wing aviators! Need your help!

I'm contemplating the idea of staying in and tryin to be a chopper pilot. I took the afast during my first enlistment, and got like a 119 or somethin, and I have like 70+ units of college. Any warrant officer aviators out there wanna email me and guide Read More...
Posted Friday, September 23, 2005 2:00 AM by jfitzer | 0 Comments

More info about 11B's who are getting called up from the IRR

at this link.... http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=132&t=376376 Now i know where the career manager was getting this E5 stuff from. So I gotta pass the APFT to promote to E5. No sweat, right? Good think i've been working out. I mean, Read More...
Posted Friday, September 16, 2005 11:58 PM by jfitzer | 1 Comments

Leaving San Diego

On the anniversary of the day that Muslim extremists attacked America, on the anniversary of the day that I began digging bodies out of the pentagon, I leave to join the fight against extremism in Iraq. Weird coincidence. It'll be about a year and a half Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 11, 2005 9:45 AM by jfitzer | 1 Comments

Alright, let's get one thing straight.

I've been reading a lot of these blogs lately, and I've been reading some things about media distortion of troops' quotes, and other such nonsense... Then today, I get 2 emails through my old blog (which I've archived here) The emails were both the same, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 06, 2005 9:13 PM by jfitzer | 4 Comments

New blog system, thanks ArmySteve!

I'll be putting up pictures and whatnot here... I've migrated all of the old posts. They can be found under “Articles” labelled “Old blog posts.” Great to be here. I'm mentally and physically preparing for my return to the army, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 06, 2005 2:50 PM by jfitzer | 1 Comments