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I'm on edge.
-These Iraqis are pissing me the fuck off. I hate all of them. Pure and genuine hatred. But I keep my cool.
-The Army is nothing but a bunch of douchebags. But I ignore it and tell myself it will be over soon.
-The "surface" and "air" navy is unlike the submarine navy which I am accustomed too. But I tell myself to hang in there.
-I dont like working 14 hours a day and getting 5 hours of sleep a night for 9 months straight, and then we get mortared and i get no sleep. But I push myself and set the example.
-I dont like carrying 300 rounds, m16 with a grenade launcher, body armor, helmet with me everywhere. 50 awkward pounds. But I toughen up and help others out of vehicles.
-I am so sick of all these muslims and their hypocrisy. But I dont say anything and try to learn why.
-I have athletes foot, my feet are killing me with blisters. But I refuse to walk with a limp.
-Im so sick of all their stupid rules regarding religion and their fucking LAZINESS. But I get an interpreter and explain things to them.
-IM SO SICK OF TRYING TO TRAIN LAZY PEOPLE WHO CANNOT THINK FOR THEMSELVES. But I tell them the right way every time.
-IM SO SICK OF HOLDING THE IRAQIS HANDS WHEN THIS IS THEIR FUCKING COUNTRY AND THIS IS THEIR FUCKING MESS. But I tell them to try to change things and not rely on others. I tell them if they are unhappy with the government they should run for office, usually met with shrugs and a blank stare.
"When your going through hell, keep going"
"Tough times dont last, tough people do."
This is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. 35 days. Im sprinting to the finish.
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[29 Oct 2008|01:01pm] |
It honestly kinda hurt to see the USS Minneapolis/St. Paul get ripped apart in dry dock in Hawaii, as she she sat on nothing but blocks. Well April showers bring May flowers because Minnesota just got the most advanced submarine(yeah fuck you surface ships) in the world. I'm a little late but...
Congrats Minnesota.
The third USS Minnesota (SSN-783) will be the 10th of a projected 30 Virginia-class submarines. She will be the fourth United States Navy ship named for the state of Minnesota. The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 14 August 2003. Her name was announced on 15 July 2008.
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[30 Sep 2008|03:21pm] |
Dirka Dew.
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[17 Sep 2008|01:48pm] |
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[27 Jun 2008|09:20pm] |
I volunteered to be a combat medic. Actually there was a couple things we could volunteer for, including humvee driver, humvee fixer, gas mask training, or combat medic. I wanted to be a humvee driver but because of my rank I will be a humvee commander, which is fine by me. ("drive there bitch!")
The combat medic course trains us on gun shots wounds to the chest (Pneumothorax), ivs, tornequits(sp?!), and treating massive bleeding with field dressing.
They say that if you can do all of those things then you will be able to save 90% of the casualties that are savable. Pneumothorax or a "sucking chest wound" is caused by getting shot in the chest and collapsing a lung and is treated by sticking someone with a big thick needle between the third and second rib, which are really hard to find. I dont know if i could stab someone with a needle in the chest when they are sucking for air.
They are starting to get into our heads about shooting to kill, saving our own lives and also expect casualties. We have been trained to not try to save someone who is not breathing with no pulse, to not touch someone until the area is secured, and that the best medicine on the battlefield is shots down range. We practiced doing treatment to ourselves also, because chances are we wont be able to get treated right away. Treating yourselves sucks and i think i would be in to much shock to think straight. I fractured my ankle way back in my basketball days and couldnt give the coach my phone number to call my parents because of shock.
Wearing body armor SUCKS. I sweat constantly, even while resting, and need to drink gallons of water to refill my tank and i still piss orange juice. </random>
To actually get qualified to stick people in the battle field we have to stick someone tomorrow with an iv. my first one will be interesting but i am confident i will be able to stick the vein.
The Timberwolves piss me off. I hate them so much. I dont understand how Glen Taylor can have a Vice President who everyone HATES, when your in a business depends on how much the public likes you and your team. Stupid. All you see is the fans cursing away at Kevin "McFail" on the Star Tribune comments. I think Oj Mayo will be more of a star than Kevin Love, but what do I know?
My mom emailed me saying she "bawled her eyes out." Thank god she didnt call me. People wonder why i dont answer my phone. "I aint got time to bleed!"
The flash out.
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[20 May 2008|09:07pm] |
One week till I come home. I cant wait to hang out with the people I miss all the time. Shit should be fun. I plan on not getting drunk like everynight like I usually do when I go home so I can actually enjoy peoples company without being drunk or hungover.
I had wanted to see my dad in Chicago, but decided against it because I figure he will just let me down, because hes a piece of shit like that. I really don't need any emotional baggage right now.
Theres an ass ton of people at my house. My roommate is a triplet and had her two sisters and stepsister and their friend come to stay for like 3 weeks. I feel bad because I cant really hang out because I never get off work until like 6pm and have to wake up at 6am so I'm exhausted by the time I get home, and of course they have awaken at about noon or so.. fucking a. What i would give to sleep in for one god damn day. Just one GOD DAMN DAY. anyways, I can never do anything and feel bad. yeah. Not that i would really hang out anyways. they all talk wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy tooooo much.
I cant stand people who talk too much.
I bought stocks the other day. mostly because i was bored... seriously. I also opened an IRA. both through USAA because i already have car insurance through them. I have about 2000k invested so far in that account. Why? because i had nothing else to do with the money.
My smallpox shot no longer looks like my arm is going to fall off and doesnt itch at all anymore. its awesome.
picture me rolling
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[11 Apr 2008|06:28am] |
Video I took while I was lookout after leaving hong kong.
Ok so it was my roomate. But I was browsing the internet below...
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[05 Apr 2008|02:33pm] |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Thank you.
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[31 Mar 2008|01:51pm] |
Ive never like Garfield. I always thought it was not funny at all and trying to make points on things that were blatantly obvious or just retarded lasagna jokes about a cat wanting more food. What?
Anyways, Garfield Minus Garfield is so much better than actual Garfield.
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[27 Mar 2008|06:02pm] |
My mom keeps calling me crying, and I feel like an asshole because I dont want to deal with it so I just dont answer, or ever call her back. She sent me an email today like pleading with me to not go, she acts like its my decision.. I cant just call up some guy and be like, "hey man, i dont want to go anymore.. ok thanks bud ;-)" Besides submarines are just lame as fuck, I dont want to be on one anymore, im just sick and tired of doing the same old pointless bullshit every fucking day. I mean they do cool shit, but only on deployment, but then your underwater for 6 months straight and you see the same asshole every 6 hours, certifications have become all political bullshit because theres no real way to test how good a boat is except in actual combat.
Wikipedia has a big article on U.S. navy slang. Its pretty funny, because its all so true, and if your not in the navy its like "what?" I edited a little bit of it, Wikipedia kicks ass. Some of my favorites:
Virtual Liberty: The idea that a sailor could walk off the ship and, instead of going into town, step on his crank, throw his wallet into the water and hit himself over the head with a blunt object. The result would be waking up on the pier the next morning with an aching crotch, no money, a serious headache and the inability to remember anything from the previous night; just like actual liberty.
Touch and Go's: Repeatedly falling asleep in a meeting or a class while trying desperately to stay awake. After nodding off, the person's head will dip forward almost to his chest, whereupon he will snap back into a very brief state of semi-consciousness and repeat the process. Named after practice landings where the aircraft descends, briefly touches down while still rolling forward, and quickly becomes airborne again. Very prevalent at AOM's and training. Also called "giving the invisible man head." Also the name of the open "buffet" available on the messdecks of carriers between meals (usually grayish hotdogs and PBJ sandwiches).
ROD: Retarded Officer Dude
Muffin: Most Useless Fat Fuck In Navy
OBNOB: Only Black Nuke Onboard. Self-explanatory. Usually only found on submarines due to a significantly smaller number of nukes stationed onboard a submarine vice a carrier.
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[09 Mar 2008|07:40pm] |
So my car is dying. Which is strange because jap cars never die. FUCK YOU DETROIT! It needs a new clutch, new timing belt, new tires, new plugs/wires, new fuel filter, and maybe new tires, seal the trunk(it leaks) and i would like to put some thump in the trizunk. Orrr i could just buy a new one... It would matter if hawaii didnt have a stupid inspction which my car fails because theres moisture in the headlights or some bullshit. another way for those commie bastards to get the white mans money.
My mom cried when i told her i was leaving hawaii for the middle east. I felt like an asshole because all i did was say i have to go.. I think she wanted me to sit there and listen to her cry... not going to happen..
My parents are coming out here next month though. Should be fun if i actually get to take leave for it. My boats personnel has become stretched so thin that its hard to get time off, and we are not a priority because we are in dry dock. kill me please.
We did get a new captain yesterday. I dont get the whole military ceremonies thing. Its like you expect so much and shit and all they ever are are, them announcing whos arriving and saluting and ringing the bell, then a couple speeches fro some dudes, then taking another half an hour for everyone to leave and then every gets drunk afterwards and drives home(drunk). cool! I just think its odd to have a big ceremony for somone to relieve someone in command. They literally looked at eachother on stage and said "i relieve you," "i stand relieved," then told the commodore. hmm. lame sauce.
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[09 Mar 2008|07:36pm] |
So thats my buddy. And im joining him in the sandbox later this year. I leave for ARMY basic combat school in South Carolina in June, then i get climatized in Kuwait after and ship to IRAQ shortly after.
I volunteered to go because I hate submarines and the pointless bullshit that comes with them. I only wished i left sooner. The plan for the rest of military career is to skeet out of work as much as possible while im here and then leave in June for the next year. I get out oct next year, and ill get back in June.
Theres still a chance i might not go bcause the boat "cant afford to lose me." The commodore(V.I.P) was briefed on my situation and plans to send me since im a volunteer, everyone loves a volunteer right???
So i should be coming home soon for a while to say goodbye before I ship out to the middle east.
peace!
I really need to decide if i want to stay in or not. Going to school sucks. My boss makes 90,000 a year and hes only been in the navy for 8 years. How many 27 year olds do you know without any college and a G.E.D make 90k a year?
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[03 Jan 2008|11:39am] |
I forgot my new years resolutions!
1. Read a book a month. I have so many good books that I don't have time to read. But as i look back to last year i realized that i can cut some video game time out to reading more, which will contribute to a healthier life in many ways.
Some books include:
1. Autobiography of malcom X
2. Sperm Wars
3. Automatic millionaire
4. Its not about the bike.
2. Get involved with politics.
-I like politics and I enjoy(gasp!) talking politics to others. Actually, i like outsmarting people and telling them their candidate choices are fucking retarded, which in general boosts my ever growing ego. ZING! And for the record i like Mitt Romney as of now.
Waaitttt for itttt....
3. Lose weight. Right now i have like a four pack, i want my six pack back. My plan includes limiting my sitting around time, running at least 5 miles a week, and swimming at least once a week, and eliminating pop altogether, small changes that have huge effects.
4. Be more responsible with my money. I suck at this game and i need to save money because i get out of the navy soon.
5. Apply to at least 5 colleges before DEC, and take my SAT/ACT before MAY. I need to study and get my life on a road to success, I chose DEC because thats the deadline before the 09 fall semester for most schools.
6. Become a master of my trade, and leader among my division on my boat. I am a second class and am now in charge of a few guys, my boss comes to me for more and expects me to use the others to carry out these orders that he gives me. I want to be an effective leader, listen to concerns, and accomplish all tasks with few hardships, which in turn will pave the way into becoming successful when i get a real job.
7. Emulate the best. Every book i have read on becoming a better person has said, see what the masters do and copy them, and alter that to fit you. Some people I would like to shadow are:
1. Mark Cuban
2. Tucker Max
3. Donald Trump
4. Micheal Jordan
5. Lance Armstrong
6. Terell Owens (take this one with a grain of salt, i do not need to emulate EVERY aspect of someone, I like T.O's work ethic.)
Ill post more when i feel like it. Its time to drink.
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[02 Jan 2008|12:57pm] |
Alright so im home still. Ive finally gotten used to the minnesota weather. Freaking -2 yeasterday. I just had to use my iphone powers and notcied that hawaii was a steamy 80 while i was shivering outside. oh well fuck hawaii anyways, its so worth it.
Me and my roomate hate Hawii so much that we root against the football team because thats all anyone in hawaii talks about. How they are undefeated and shits. Well they basically play high school teams, which, i think is why they are undefeated.. anyways everyone was waiting until they played georgia in the sugar bowl, a big BCS bowl. Well yesterday they got STOMPED. like 43-10 or some bullshit. hahahha. this boosts my ego and make me giggle inside, a double advantage.
So i went to my dads friends house yesterday, because he said, theres somthing we had to see. Turns out the dude took acid, made a bunch of snowman untill 2 am in the morning one night, and the next day painted them and put random accesories on or around them, like bucktes on the head and potatoes for noses and shit. The shit is crazy though because you couldnt do this unless you were on some "dank" shit. Channel 4 news was there yesterday with a camera and we were all watching the news later to see if they showed, to bad i fell asleep. Pictures to come for sure.
So i liked RTF's doings about writing about dreams hes had recently.
Last night i dreamed about being a cop on The FBI Files(which is a kick ass show). But i was the main guy leading the investigation of a murder of a local college girl. But it was weird because i wasnt actually searching for a murderer i was searching for the body.. And when i found it, it was burning in a bin... The end of the story was me rescuing her out of this bin, after she was murdered, and she magically came to life, and walked home. I just let her go and was like "ok byee!" Then i woke up, after saving the day.
hmm..
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[20 Dec 2007|07:49pm] |
Hey looky. I was browsing the lan on my boat and happened to find a bunch of pictures when blink 182 toured it couple years ago. It had some pictures of them looking out the periscope and shit. One toured without a shirt.. hmmm. So I looked up Travis barker on wikipedia and found a picture of him sitting in control. sweet. A lot of celebrities have visited I see, including admiral after admiral, plenty of state officials, and even "Rudy" 2 years ago. Interesting...
"Smell something Rabbit? ....Reefer."
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[14 Nov 2007|09:49pm] |
Discrimination is a powerful thing, a very powerful thing. I have gone far lengths in my life to not hate others, sure i act like a raging dick head, and i make black jokes with my friends, but i have many friends of color and get along with them.
I never thought I could be on the outside of that. I am white. White people don't get hated on, white people speak of nothing more than prominence and superiority. Unless you live in Hawaii.
I am writing this to officially come out and say that I am a racist. I HATE HAWAIIANS.
Let me explain.
I loved this place in the beginning, weathers great, beautiful beaches, still in America, yet far away enough to be on my own, Then I realized through a sort of events that Hawaiians don't take education seriously, therefor they talk like a bunch of uneducated nit-wits. "Hey braa!!!"
Whatever. I can deal with people who are stupid. Everyone likes pot heads right?
When i go downtown, i get my id taken away from me at bars all the time. Why? because I'm white, and the bouncers don't like me. This happens to numerous white people.
When white people get pulled over we get busted for street racing, reckless driving, all kinds of other bullshit offenses. Again, numerous white people only.
Last week I almost got arrested by the fucking HPD for having a good time. Well actually, I was fooling around with my friends, like pushing each other and stuff, having a good time, and a Hawaiian cop with a white partner comes up to me and notifies me of his presence, and how nobody "assaults" people with him around. Assault?!?! are you fucking kidding me? I immediately start talking shit and calling him a stupid Hawaiian until a fellow white "brother" holds me back and says this is how us white folk get arrested, so I just stopped and the they left, talking shit the whole time.
The funny thing was, the white cop just looked down like, "why is my partner such an idiot..." I feel ya brother.
Hawaiians work in shipyard, which is always coming down to our boat fixing crap.
They do not speak to us, they do not look at us, they do not acknowledge us. I have started going out of my way to be a dick to them, just because there Hawaiian. I do what i can.
Theres also just the generalness of the hate that you feel when you go anywhere. You can tell when your in the wrong area or you should be someplace, and it happens quite a bit here.
I know at least 4 guys who have gotten beat up walking back to their cars downtown, like jumped, sucker punched and wallets stolen type thing.
I think today is when i realized that i do not like them at all. The are not attractive, they are stupid, they talk stupid, this is not America, The only thing good about Hawaii is the beaches and the weather.
I officially hate every Hawaiian that i meet just because they are Hawaiian.
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[31 Oct 2007|03:00pm] |
I just get so confused about everything Navy and college. I dont know what i want to do with my life probably sums up a great deal of that pain and wondering.. but meh, who the fuck does know what they want to do?
Today i went to navy college and was briefed on a bunch of stuff, like how to get classes for free and which colleges i should attend and crap like that. The brief was informative although, like i said, i have no clue what i want to take classes in. I do now know that i can only take classes which the navy will pay for for exactly one more year... because i have two years left and can only take classes with more than one year.
With all that said i think i am going to take classes at HPU so it actually looks kind of good. I already have about thirty credits from the navy garbage i breezed through, so about 30 ore in a year doesnt seem to hard to do..
although you never know..
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[27 Oct 2007|08:06am] |
So this week has been rather interesting. The other day i was on the boat, came topside, and lookie! the uss ohio was next to us. My first thought is THAT THING IS HUGE! well it is. They were fully loaded with tomahawks about to go on deployment.
The thing is a boomer that has been converted to a missle shooting pi-zimp. Basically, they dont need boomers because the threat of the cold war isnt looming. Well not as much anyways. so rather than scrap them, they converted them to hold a shit ton of missiles, to compare, my boat holds 12... Im not sure if its classified how much they hold so ill just say its a fuck ton. They also had a bunch of seals on board. I actually got to do some running with them. They are so bad ass.
Unfortunatly i didnt get to take a tour of the SSGN Ohio. I wanted to, but everyone told me i will just hate my life because they have like coke machines onboard and games roomes and shits, which is why they are referred to,. in the sub community as "boomer fags," whereas we get called "fast attack tough." Fair enough i guess.
Sometimes i hate being in the navy sub force because i get to see all this cool shit but i can never tell anyone.
So today we had to clean for two hours. Since im a fucking dirtbag who cannot stand to clean for more than ten minutes i just sat there and played with my iphone, cleaning is so stupid.
My posts have gotten really navy lately. I cant escape this shit. Its not a job its a lifestyle. At least there is some cool shit that came out of the navy.
Tube Daze Animation Studios <---------This shit is awesome, its a spoof on the submarine navy, in which the chief is always bitching at you to rove, your always making fun of nukes, and you give nubs shit because you can. Too bad you wont get any of it unless your actually in.
LAMEEE
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[24 Oct 2007|08:36pm] |
Thats my boat on the right, USS Hampton on the left. I slept through most of this, although i got up and look out the scope and saw a carrier really fucking close to us(make that three). I got to talk to one of the guys on the carrier over secure voice and they talk funny, sub guys just get the job done. This concluded exercise Valiant Shield 07 in which there where many more subs doing much more cool shit. The exercise was FUCKING BAD ASS. Theres so much planning to do this, because surface ships are bitches and don't like to get close to anyone, whereas submarines are used to getting almost ran over all the fucking time so it was nothing new. They also had about 17 million procedures for every type of casualty possible, like if our reactor shit itself we would just stop and die, and then this boat turns 20 degrees port, next boat following first boats queue, turns starboard narrowly avoiding first boat, shit like that. A WHOLE lot of planning and procedure following
Lamee.
We(us and hampton) were both on westpac during this exercise, the end of anyways. On the way back you have to do an exercise involving your reactor and how well your boat responds to casulties (fires, flooding, etc) well we got an above average and hampton got a below average. oh yeah. Everyone in charge got fired. Its even in the Star Tribune.
http://www.startribune.com/484/story/1501312.html
heh. suckssss.
2 years left in the navy. I can officially start counting down now.
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[25 Sep 2007|11:50pm] |
Today was interesting.. Me, jon, and andy went out to chili's(which i have had a shit ton of this past month i have been back, but whatever i can eat queso all night) Afterwards andy pointed out that Good Luck Chuck cam out recently, so we all agreed to go see it. We saw it in some shitty ass hawaiian theatre which (no joke) smelled like sex when we walked in, of course i yelled that and i also yelled other obscene things, along with jon while andy was pissing or something... its good to be back with the boys...
[WARNING: PLOT SPOILED]
The movie was good, not great but good. I give it a 6.5 of 10, Dane Cook plays a character who is cursed when he is very young by some freakish girl. Well, later in life, someone starts this so called rumor that anyone he sleeps with will get married to the next guy they meet. Problem is, he doesnt really care about that, because nobody falls in love with him, hes just the stepping stone. Theres some good humor in here, because there's some fat guy(??) whos a plastic surgeon (all he does is tits) who tells "chuck" that hes got it made.
Gorgeous Jessica Alba comes along playing super hard to get penguin freak, and like a match made in heaven, dane's character falls for her...unfortunatly he doesnt want to do her because then she will fall in love with the next guy she meets(remember the curse?) Well, he gets it reversed after going crazy trying to stop her falling in love with anyone and they eventually fall. If you go see it i recommend staying until after the credits start to watch the hilarious dane cook going down on a penguin. That had everyone rolling. Like i said 6.5 of 10. I wouldnt go see it again, but i would watch it if it was playing.
Anyways. I did a very ad thing the other day. I (make sure your sitting down) bought WOW. omg hax! seriously the game isnt that bad, people just have a biased opinion because fucking losers play it. I'll play it casually until i get bored. I did notice that they upped the price from $9.99 to $14.99 a month. As if 8 million strong paying $10 a month isnt enough.
I decided that soulja boy has no talent what-so-ever, and i'm pretty sure i can battle him(b.rabbit style) and win. I'm sick of people saying how good that song is just because it has a catchy dance to it. I wish 50 cent would diss him in a song.
I went to navy college the other day and have enrolled in college classes. This is a step in my life goals that i had before joining the navy(get an associates before i get out). I've got 2 years to do it, ad i already have at least 40 credits from the navy and their b.s. schools.
Other than that my life is boring. To bad it's Tuesday and the wow servers are down due to updates. Just kidding. ...
....ok maybe not.
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