With that said, I'd like to reflect a little on the date 04 July ... As I think back over the years of where I have been on this day, it provides a pretty good portal into this adventure we all like to call the US Navy.
1997 - Annapolis, MD - Plebe summer and all that jazz
1998 - Slidell, La - at my parents house
1999 - Underway in the Puget Sound aboard USS Bridge (AOE 10)
2000 - Underway off the coast of Maui, Hawaii aboard USS Fitzgerald (DDG62)
2001 - In Newport, RI - just living life
2002 - Duty Officer on board USS Gettysburg (CG 64)in port Mayport, FL
2003 - Underway somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean aboard USS Gettysburg(CG 64)
2004 - In port Guantanamo Bay, Cuba aboard USS John L Hall (FFG 32)
2005 - In Pascagoula, MS w/ Colleen
2006 - In Philadelphia, PA w/ Colleen
2007 - Fallujah, Iraq
I think that you'll agree that is a pretty diverse list of places spread out all over the globe. By a wide margin the best fireworks were at GITMO - nearly 45 minutes of spectacular fireworks. In contrast, Fallujah will not have any fireworks. It is somewhat sad, and I am sure that there was a big discussion at some higher level that I wasn't privy to. The chow hall was all decked out in red, white, and blue and serving a barbecue style meal; however, we didn't have any cake (there was ice cream). I don't offer this as a complaint, merely as a port hole view of life in the wonderful world of Babylon. I'll close with a picture I took a few minutes ago. A caption isn't necessary ... Tanks are cool.
P.S. There will no longer be misspellings or grammatical errors. Just an FYI for all the readers, the blog publishing system is equipped with spell check. How lazy. - Colleen Bent, Editor/Publisher/Proofreader
5 comments:
Will miss your blog, but know C will do you proud!!!! Much love, dad
Reference the 1st Amendment and see what happens.
Well, that's an interesting turn of events. How much editorial license/leeway are you going to give Colleen? Or, a better more accurate question - how much is she going to take?
Oops! I don't suppose hyphens are allowed anymore.
We'll miss the Walt Whitman rhetoric. Will miss your post. New Port, hmmm... Isn't that where Sean and I visited you? "10, i give it a @*$%#€$ 10!" Can't wait to see you.
Geoffry, don't know if you still check this, but I passed my Series 7 Securities Liscense Exam! I'm really excited. It was the hardest thing that I have ever studied for.
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