As I mentioned the other day, I’m traveling overseas this winter! Again! First I’m going back to Egypt to visit a friend and to do a short Arabic course, then I’m flying to China. My brother conveniently moved there last year to work so now I can go visit and use him as a free [...]
The first toilets we saw at boot camp didn’t even bother to have any toilet paper available. I don’t think I pooped for three days. If we showered during those same days in the holding pen squad bay, I don’t remember it so I’m sure we all smelled quite lovely. During the few free minutes [...]
In my dream last night, I was dreaming that I was pregnant and I was running around trying to find a nice place to give birth. I decided that a bathtub brimming with hot water would be the perfect place but for some reason I was having an awfully hard time filling up the tub. [...]
I am still in Virginia. When I went to medical during the checking-out process, they found an exam or something that wasn’t done that should have been done before I got to school so they scheduled me for it. Only problem was that the exam date was a week after my flight so I’m staying [...]
Miraculously, my phone rang today. I leaned over and examined the caller ID to make sure I didn’t need to make a sudden bathroom visit, and I saw a Northern Virginia area code. Our colonel (who knows this blog exists so I must say nice things about him!) has a house in Virginia and he’s [...]
Written on port-a-pottie walls in Kuwait: Air Force and Navy: Nothing but taxi rides. Army Girls: Only 6000 miles from ugly again. Mike Was Here-Mike is a fag!- I was here, but I’m not a fag. MyAssRidesNavyEquipmentSir!- Bullshit!- MAGTF Bitches!! I hate eggs, 21 DEC 05. Look! Infantrymen hatching!(arrow pointing into hole) Here we are, [...]
I was standing outside an office compound with Colonel Roach Wrangler when we saw a staff sergeant we knew walking into a nearby port-a-pottie. The colonel commented: “There’s a SNCO in his natural habitat!” He then picked up a rock and prepared to chuck it at the port-a-pottie. Just before he threw it, he sneakily [...]
The worst part of every day is the twenty minutes that begin when my alarm beeps or when my eyes open all by themselves. I hate the waking up and getting ready process, but today deserves a special mention in the Interesting Morning Hall-of-Fame. I scraped myself out of bed, put on my favorite outfit, [...]
I’m going to make all other deployed servicemembers jealous when I say this but I’ll say it anyway, just because it’s so unfathomable: I now have my own bathroom. With two showers and two toilets and four sinks. Granted, the only reason it’s my own bathroom is because I’m the only female in our compound, [...]
The lights went out in the shower trailer last night as I was finishing up the cleaning process. Just as they flickered away, I heard somebody open the door, pause, and then they shut it again. I guess they didn’t feel like showering in the dark. I couldn’t see a thing…I had to stick my [...]
Most people brush their teeth before going to bed, but out here, the process of scrubbing old food off my teeth has become rather exciting. Usually the female evening shower hour has passed by the time I’m ready to dig out the tooth cleaning tools so I end up brushing just outside our living container [...]
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