Archive for December, 2007
It is Christmas Day, 2007, now almost 8:00 in the evening. We have finished dinner, and now I have returned to the solitude of my trailer. After work on Christmas Eve, I organized a little fellowship gathering behind the building. We ate some snacks, threw horseshoes and darts, and talked around a fire. We then [...]
I think we’re all getting tired. I know I am. In the old days (that’s back when I first joined the Army, 24 years ago), everyone had a countdown, or short-timer’s, calendar. It was a way to keep a running count of how many days you had left in a tour, enlistment, prison-sentence, etc. Some [...]
I have survived my three days of combat lifesaver training. The second day was mostly spent learning how to give IV’s. On the third day, we had a mass-casualty exercise. Giving someone an IV in a classroom is pretty easy. It’s a lot more difficult when the patient is on a stretcher on the ground [...]
I began a three day combat lifesaver’s course today. The highlight of the day was having a six inch rubber hose shoved up my nose. It’s something called a nasal pharyngeal airway, and is designed to keep a patient’s airway open. The sadists teaching the course maintain that you can’t really give one to someone [...]
I recently remarked that a little subversiveness has always been good for the country. Of course, this was meant as a joke, so it’s somewhat foolish for me to try to defend the claim. Whether the claim is true depends on how “subversive” is defined. I’m sure that there are many different lexical definitions of [...]
I haven’t posted anything in a few days. I can’t access any blog sites from the office computer. They are all blocked. I’m not sure why, but it might be to minimize the possibility of anyone reading Bruce Prescott’s blog on a government machine. They just don’t realize that a little subversiveness is always good [...]
