Saturday, February 22, 2014. End of era,at least for me.

So it has been very busy the past couple of days. Now I am retired from the army. Not sure how I feel about that. Sure I know that I would not be able to pick up a rucksack and go,  but I still will miss it. 

I have meet so many great people that I can't even say. I have met more than my fair share of jerks but that is not the point. Army people are just regular people in so many ways but at the same time I know there is a difference also. 

If you take off the uniform we look like everyone else. So I want to stop there I guess that's your choice. 

Well I have a blue ID card now. Bittersweet.

I have spent most of the past couple of days at the military post. Not the best way to spend time,  but I felt like I got a lot done. But the fact that I need help is a constant reminder of how helpless I can be. 

I think of all that I have been given the opportunity to do and it has been very cool. I started off as a linguist and interrogator. Then we moved to texas and I got out for a while. I finally decided that I should get back in, but this time I would try it as an officer. So I reenlisted and got the guaranteed officer candidate school option. When I went to officer candidate school it was nothing like basic training,  they wanted us to think to. But thanks be I made it through. Now that I got to be an officer my first duty station was in north texas. The next thing I got to go to south texas in a type of deployment for a year. From there I got accepted into flight school. It was a lot of blood,sweat, and tears. I thought I would spend the rest of my career as a pilot. But there was an opportunity to be a military social worker. Not the greatest but I got my masters degree. I had the opportunity to take the train the trainer that the army offers and while I was doing that I had my stroke. And now I am retired. So if you have a stroke that kills about 99% of the people who have one,  go ahead,but I don't recommend it.

So it has been a long and interesting ride. I don't recommend it to anyone but it gives me a unique perspective. 

I think I was kind of sick yesterday. Not something I want to repeat. But it wasn't to bad otherwise. 

I have been meaning to write more this week but it has been a crazy week for me and I have been a lot more tired than usual lately. 

I would like to make this longer but I am not sure what to say right now.  Take care everyone.