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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Enjoying a drink that I tried to buy using the rest of my Starbucks card, but the manager wouldn’t hear of it. Thanks, Starbucks! In other news, I tried to get into the United Lounge with my boarding pass and my Premier Executive (Gold) status card, but they only let me in on the condition [...]
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The coffee arrived and it turns out a case contains 24 pounds. Elysia is sending six of them to a combat zone — I forget which one — and the rest we will drink and share throughout the year. It is pre-ground so I cannot empty it all out into a bath tub and roll [...]
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