I was lookin' around for any updates on the infamed David Mortari... the Marine who has been crucified on the internet for throwing a puppy off a cliff. I stumbled across this video:
If he is of a compassionate nature you can harass him.
Too many times, I'll say something, and my wife will think I'm "making things up."
For example, on our wedding night, we were lying in bed in our motel room watching "Good Morning Vietnam". We get to this part:
I started quizzin' her "Who sings it!?" She drew a blank, so I told her, "I'll give you a hint... his nickname was 'Satchmo'." She swore I was making it up!!! I told her that Louis Armstrong's nickname was 'Satchmo', and there was no convincing her it was true!
Well, at the end of the song, I was validated, to say the least.
So, tonight, I was fiddling with a website when I came a cross a MIDI file playing in the background. The tune was SO familiar, but it took me a few seconds to nail it. I started singing along with "Don't Mess With My Toot Toot" and once again, I had to PROVE to Ladonna I wasn't full of shit!
So I found this video on YouTube, and was once again validated.
I've now been at the 68W Reclassification (Army Combat Medic) Course Phase III for a few days now. What was pretty interesting was the last 250 miles of this trip.
I was cruisin' along doing 80MPH (because that was the speed limit!) when I passed through one of those seemingly barren desert towns that had no business being where it was. There was an overpass that went over I-20, and there were two hitchikers waitin' in the shade for somebody to pick them up.
Mike was one, and "Pockets" was the other. I asked why he called himself pockets, and he told me...
SGT Jeffrey Foster made a few commercials like this while we were stationed at Al-Taqaddum, Iraq in 2005. This one was, in my opinion, the funniest of the three. On my YouTube profile, I also have his CSM Store Commercial... these were an absolute riot!
Well, I took the National Registry EMT Basic exam yesterday. The last time I took the exam, it was a paper exam with 250 questions. As I recall, we were allowed three hours to take it. It took quite a while to get the results of the exam on the NREMT website, and...
I was bored at 2am after getting off the phone with Steph, so I played a little with my digital camera and Photoshop. I had no idea I would elicit the responses I've gotten on MySpace.
The really cool thing was how impressed some of those who are GOOD with Photoshop were.
*** UPDATE ***
So I was showing this photo to my two oldest boys (Boogie 7 and Bubba 6). They immediately recoginzed I was the one sitting down, but they got REAL confused when I asked who that was standing up.
I told them that was their "Uncle Jerry"... my twin brother with the same name who lives in Florida. I, then, had them call my mother to ask her about it. I had my mom rolling!!!
I wrote my first training article that's published here [LINK]. It's titled The Right Training at the Right Time, and I believe it should be required reading for EVERYONE who's involved in any type of tactical or firearms training... either as students or instructors.
I know it's a long read, but it's an important read. I'm not saying this to "toot my own horn"... but most people don't maximize their training efforts simply because of the timing of their training.
That's all I'm going to say about it... read the article, and you be the judge.
