the perspective of a military family . . . the narcissism of a blog
Click HERE for a list of other updates and photos from Elysia during her deployment to Afghanistan. Notes from Elysia while she was in Kuwait, continued from The Last Days CONUS: After 7+ hours of flying, our flight landed in Rammstein Air Base, Germany. The families all got off here, leaving only military members and [...]
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Click HERE for a list of other updates and photos from Elysia during her deployment to Afghanistan. From Elysia: Picking back up from my last update, I spent the rest of my time in Fort Polk with more training — how to identify potential IED (improvised explosive device) threats, measures to defeat those threats, how [...]
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Commander Elysia Ng-Baumhackl graduates from Class #132 3rd Battalion, 353rd Regiment (Training), 162nd Infantry Brigade Fort Polk, Louisiana Click on any photo for a larger version. Click on any photo for a larger version.
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Almost twelve years of Navy life and I finally took a tour of an aircraft carrier. The George Washington Carrier Strike Group visited Singapore on October 13th and I was able to attend a reception on USS George Washington (CVN-73) hosted by Commander of the U.S. Navy 7th Fleet Vice Admiral Scott Swift and the [...]
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It has already been a month since Elysia left Singapore on her IA to Afghanistan. She had several days in San Diego for medical and other processing and is currently in combat-related training at Fort Polk, Louisiana, home of the Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center. It is an intense schedule with one day off each [...]
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