Category Archives: Work

Jake’s OIF War Journal 6: It Begins

Now we get to the good stuff. All the posts to this point have been about waiting to go to war in Kuwait. There’s a little of that here, but this is about the start of the war, written on … Continue reading

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Jake’s OIF War Journal 3: Jump! Jump the dogs of war! Also, the Hajj.

In the last episode of “Jake’s OIF War Journal,” I got everything caught up. Then I took a month off apparently. What I remember about this entry is I was sitting in a tent at Camp New Jersey waiting for … Continue reading

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I Woke Up and My Forehead Said “QWERTY” Backwards

A little ditty about the worst Monday of the month and how poor planning and battle assemblies lead to sleeping in the office. Continue reading

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