Tag: army
member name: Mike Walton
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August 25, 2009 10:27 AM EDT --
One week from today, I'll be gathering my gear and moving into my temporary home at Banja Luca, Bosnia and Herzegovina to do my part within EUCOM's Combined Endeavor 09 exercise.
I have feelings of . . .
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January 13, 2007 04:17 PM EST --
The Devil pointed to me, crooked his slender finger, and voiced, “You KNOW why I’m here!”
Everyone in the office looked either in horror at the Devil or in pity to me, for it could have . . .
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March 11, 2007 02:45 PM EDT --
Today is my last day at Camp Arifjan. I have been selected to move northward where I would become the Deputy Director, Iraq Communications Commericalization Projects. It's not a promotion. . . .
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November 22, 2007 01:53 AM EST --
My mother passed away on April 15th -- Tax Day in the United States -- in 2004. I was there as she breathed her last breaths, allowing me and her husband, my Dad, to say "Goodbye" to her . . .
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October 14, 2006 01:46 PM EDT --
("10 Things That Guys Love" is based upon an online article written by Sara Eckel. (c) 2004 Settummanque!)
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10. P.S. I love you. They may not always admit it, but . . .
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August 06, 2008 10:19 PM EDT --
When I turned 13 (the "age of work" in our family: when you turned 13, you could now work outside the home for money -- and you get to keep every dime, every penny, every dollar!), I simply could . . .
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April 03, 2009 10:50 AM EDT --
...but it comes closest to my emotions!! After almost TWO MONTHS' absence from Gather, I have finally gotten this laptop -- the one with the space bar which doesn't want to always space -- to . . .
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August 04, 2008 01:28 AM EDT --
(I sent this to my friends back this time (August) last year....I love archived email!! For those folks wanting to know what NOT to send overseas, this should give you some idea...*smiling*) . . .
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April 09, 2008 12:47 AM EDT --
Three days after I posted the PowerPoint poster to my door -- to replace the one which stated simply "don't let people Phish for you!" -- his family made the somber announcement: they found . . .
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April 04, 2009 02:29 PM EDT --
(The mainbahnhof is the central or main train station in a town)
Hello!!
Now that I've shaken the keyboard, I can get on with typing...maybe....
I am at the main train station and I finally found . . .
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August 23, 2008 11:44 PM EDT --
Okay. So now I was a bit famous AND the subject of a lawsuit. I DID say "sue me!" before I started; and my version only went to #2 on Billboard's chart for . . .
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December 25, 2008 04:47 AM EST --
(from "Patches and Pins...", (c) settummanque/Mike Walton )
Well, it's Christmas time again and I feel like I am sitting in the place where it all started. My fondest memories of . . .
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October 16, 2009 06:05 PM EDT --
Well, it's happened. I'm half-way toward the end...I'm officially "mature", "over the hill", and "at the top of my life".
NOT!
Physically, my body shows its age. Not that I'm trying -- like most . . .
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August 08, 2009 05:09 PM EDT --
This was a "down weekend" for me. I have already did the multi-flea market thing last weekend; went to a German movie theater only to find out the movie that I went to see was COMPLETELY in German . . .
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August 28, 2007 12:23 PM EDT --
Hello to all!! I am still in Iraq....I think for a couple more weeks.
Someone wrote a note to me about my series of "Shows Seen Only in My Head" and suggested that I get some help with . . .
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September 08, 2008 02:34 AM EDT --
Are you ready for some of the SAME TV this fall? Are you ready for shows which don't challenge your senses and make you THINK? Mind-numbing reality shows and dance-a-thons?
AFTV says . . .
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July 26, 2009 05:32 PM EDT --
(In advance of the US Army's "Year of the NCO", I decided to be a little proactive and share a bit about the first Non-Commissioned Officer I had the honor of working with. To be exact, the . . .
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June 19, 2009 06:00 PM EDT --
I am sitting on the floor of my hotel room, in my underwear (maybe TMI for some of you...but that's as bad as it gets, 'kay?), wearing my reading glasses and looking at the large screen of the HP laptop . . .
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July 11, 2009 04:08 PM EDT --
When I was a Boy Scout, I wanted so much to go to summer camp that first year -- I had heard from friends about how great camp was and why a week away from everything was sooo great!! The bad thing . . .
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June 30, 2007 04:49 AM EDT --
During the first days of AFTN, they were struggling for programming. More than anything, they wanted to be able to show and portray life on military bases and communities as close to reality as possible. . . .
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