Showing posts with label Army. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Army. Show all posts

SoCal Adventure

I say adventure like it was some awesome beach-backpacking trip where we scuba dived and hiked the cliffs of SoCal. Alas, it is nothing of the sort. Two posts in one day, though? That counts for something. Well, Mr and I went to SoCal..oh, I don't know..5 months ago? So now is obviously the most appropriate time to blog about it. There's also a trip from January I'll be posting about at some point or another..I just like to keep y'all in suspense for months on end before sharing our adventures. It's really the only way to keep you coming back. 

Most of our trips down to SoCal, in the last two years, have been Army related, and this one was no exception. But we did score an extra day for free which we spent at Disneyland so it wasn't all that bad. Because we're a National Guard family, we have to attend these pointless informative Yellow Ribbon Ceremonies where they basically file everyone into a small hotel ballroom and hand you pamphlets on PTSD and TRICARE Prime. This post-deployment ceremony was a little different in that Mr received all of his deployment awards and a cool see-through backpack [that he can bring to drill?...right]. Anyway, it was mostly pointless and added extra luggage for us to haul back home, but our day-trip to Disneyland was all the fun you could imagine.

Best part of the trip? The hotel. The Army pays for our hotels whenever we go to SoCal and they're usually quite luxurious rooms. This was BY FAR the most luxurious of all the hotels we've stayed in on the Army's dime. However, the only rooms left had two twin sized beds instead of the king sized bed we had reserved. So, to compensate for our "inconvenience" they upgraded our stay to the newly renovated, top floor, harbor view and gave us a complementary breakfast buffet ticket. Then suddenly I wasn't too concerned about sleeping across the room from Mr because it became a battle of who would sleep closest to the window with the view, we're really mature.

[obvs Bridge came with me on the plane]




vent session

Earlier today I overheard two girls talking about the Navy and the Army. 


 My ears always perk up when I hear talk about the military
[I guess it's the eavesdropper in me].  
Anyway, all was fine and well 
until I heard one girl make reference to something that seriously
made my stomach twist.
 They were talking about some kind of 
battle between the branches nonsense and one girl says, 
"after that comment he couldn't say anything, because he's not infantry..
so he obviously doesn't do much."
ohhh no you didn't miss thang!
It seriously took everything inside of me not to go
off on this seriously mistaken b*word [please 'scuse my french].
Depending on the circumstance I will probably never stand up and 
blatantly tell a stranger how wrong they are.
But I left that room feeling seriously angry inside.
I sincerely hope this isn't the average opinion of Americans.
Just because my husband isn't out on daily convoys and missions,
it doesn't lessen his importance in the Army.
Please get that straight.
He and every other service member...
is away from home
in a foreign land
sleeping on the ground or in tents
missing loved ones
carrying a weapon
living on little to no sleep
in a war zone
bored to death
scared to death
alone.
It just really makes no sense to me why anyone can
think one MOS outweighs another.
Or why one branch is superior to another.
Sure, some have chosen a more dangerous specialty 
but they have been well-equipped for such a job.
It hurts to see the separation among branches and jobs.
What good does this mentality bring to the war?
The fact of the matter is every service member is serving
the United States of America
not 
the United States of the Marine Corps..Army..Navy..
or 
the United States of the infantrymen..mechanic..ranger..

support your troops
not your branch.