My OMBUDSMAN is leaving – her hubby is slated for orders elsewhere. Now, she hasn’t *officially* announced it to the command apparently, yet she’s announced it to our playgroup. I’m confused …. isn’t being the OMBUD. kinda like a job for her? It’s a super important job I think actually, she’s got the top OMBUD. slot! So, who’s going to replace her?
Do I step in and say – “Hi! I’m Christine and I’d love to be an OMBUDSMAN!” or do I just keep doing what I am doing and helping people when they need it. I’m not really that great about organizing things like pot lucks and stuff, lol ….
I think perhaps I will pray about it tonight and see what I should do.
Yeah yeah, I know – how UN-PC! But, it’s a joke amongst my hubby’s command members. My friend Angie, who’s hubby is at the same command, and I were talking today about how it’s so common (with the command and of course others) where your S.O. has an “out” flight, but no “in” flight – the old, “I’ll be home when I’m home!” gets old, lol … I mean, it’s life in the military, but, it’s one of those crazy aspects that annoy you and mess up your planning. You can’t PLAN when your hubby is in the military – lol – what are you thinking?
My other friend just text messaged me yesterday; her fiancee just left for an 18 month tour to Iraq. She’s never dealt with deployments before so she was asking my advice. I told her the things that I think are important – live your life, stay BUSY, make a ton of awesome care packages (themes are fun to plan) and write letters or emails. A LOT of letters and emails. She’s in the mopey stage right now and I yelled at her for listening to “Come Home Soon” by sheDaisy. Do NOT listen to that song while you deal with a deployment!!!!
I adore my military wife sisters; through this blog I’ve met a few more and I hope to continue meeting ya’ll! I promise I will keep this blog more updated. It’s been seriously crazy lately!
I need to blog more here. I know … Life’s just moving at a really FAST pace lately. I will update soon! With useful information even! Yeah!
Sgt. Steve Morin Jr.
34 years old from Arlington, Texas
111th Engineer Battalion, 36th Infantry Division, Texas Army National Guard
September 28, 2005
From the time he finished high school, Sgt. Steve Morin Jr. made serving in the military his career.
“He always stood up for what he thought was right,” Gwendolyn Michelle Morin, his wife, said. “He was a fighter. He would never give up.” “He had called me to let me know what he was going to do that day,” she said. He expected to be able to call her more often because of the missions he was being assigned. Sometimes they would go 11 or 12 days between calls.
Morin enlisted in the Navy after graduating high school in his hometown of Brownfield, Texas at 17. By 34, Morin had devoted 14 years to the Navy, served in the National Guard for two and planned to attend Officers Candidate School. Morin was still in the Navy when he met his wife. At the time, the two were working for a photo company; he was Santa Claus and she was an elf, she said. Both were attending Texas Tech University. “It was funny because we always kept running into each other. He would hang outside my classes and wait for me with a Diet Coke,” recalled Gwendolyn. “He knew how to make me really happy.”
Sgt. Morin died when an IED went off, overturning the vehicle he was riding in near Umm Qasr, Iraq.
“He’s very strong willed, very determined. Humorous, a clown, but he was also very disciplined and very passionate about what he believed in,” Gwendolyn Morin said. “He always wanted to serve his country.”
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
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Heh .. I forgot to post yesterday. And I haven’t blogged in a week now. Sigh.
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Pictured Left to Right
Chief Warrant Officer Mark O’Steen, 43 years old from Ozark, Alabama
Chief Warrant Officer Thomas Gibbons, 31 years old from Prince Frederick, Maryland
Staff Sgt. Daniel L. Kisling Jr., 31 years old from Neosho, Missouri
SSgt. Gregory M. Frampton, 37 years old from Fresno, California
1st Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regimen
January 30, 2003
“They succeeded where lesser men failed,” said Chaplain Robert Glazener. “They proved themselves in ways that men out there who never served, never volunteered, never sacrificed, would never understand. They sought neither glory nor special recognition, but they gained both by their actions. They are the true American heroes today and deserve more honor than we can humbly bestow on them.”
The helicopter carrying the men went down seven miles east of the Bagram Air Base while on a training mission.
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
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