Archive for March, 2008
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
This was some footage Rob T. took on his trip to the Antarctic Marathon, and it’s awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbXtnh2K1Bk
This is not recommended for children too young to watch some of the "meatier programs" on Animal Planet.
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Weltanschauung friend Rob T. did something pretty amazing after running his first eight marathons: He ran the Antarctica marathon! (I didn’t even know there was such an event). He and some friends and family put together a short video on YouTube about it.
The event was run on King [...]
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
I just recently returned from one of the far-flung camps in our area of operations. It was one of those places where you couldn’t drink the water without boiling it first (not even to brush your teeth). Pretty much all the food was fried, even the vegetables (and sometimes even the fruit). The mango [...]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
It looks like Admiral Fallon just resigned.
His deputy will be the acting CENTCOM commander. Lt Gen Dempsey was in command of 1st Armored Division when I was working over in that neck of the woods. He helped me get some medals pushed through for my Airmen that had gotten downgraded by [...]
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
From a long way off, I had a very small hand in a very small way in some of this.
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
My Grandma passed away today.
Grandma was the mother of four children who grew up close and have remained so for my entire life. She worked as a nurse on the night shift; she went for years simply ‘high-fiving’ Grandpa and her children as she walked in the door and they walked out [...]
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
Weltanschauung friend Glenn made the Austin American-Statesman, check out the guy to Gov. Perry’s right (larger picture here)!
Glenn, his brother, and the Governor are all Eagle Scouts and are all members of the Order of the Arrow; much like the two guys who make Weltanschauung possible (primarily this one but also this one). [...]
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
I was watching CNN International when the story broke that Prince Harry was RTBing from Afghanistan where he was apparently calling in airstrikes, which is the exact same job my Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) unit in Germany performed. They showed a little footage of him in an interview (click here for the video [...]
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
This one gets me every time: Tribute to the WWII generation.
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