Army life

  • The top three

    Today, Mac found out his top three job opportunities. A command position at Fort Belvoir opened up in the past few weeks, so that became his number 1 choice. His new list:1. Fort Belvoir2. Fort Bliss3. Qatar His HRB branch manager (basically the HR manager for Signal Corps captains) said that he should find out…

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  • Apartment living

    Now that we’ve been in Augusta a few months, we’ve had some time to adjust to living in a 3 bedroom apartment. Things I like The general size: we didn’t need a 5 bedroom house. It was a lot of space we couldn’t fill up or use. Our apartment is a nice size for us, and…

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  • Tie one on for a good cause

    I received an interesting email last night from a former Marine named Antonio Centeno. He runs an organization called HighSpeedLowDrag that helps service members transition to civilian life, and he has partnered with Bows’n’Ties to create a line of military ties. $50 from each tie will donated to Stop Soldier Suicide, a non-profit veteran organization…

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  • Exploring Augusta

    Now that the weather will hopefully start cooling off, I’m hoping we can explore our new hometown a bit more in the coming months. So far, we’ve just been trying new restaurants (and have been pretty successful) and taken a drive or two. We missed out on a baseball game because of the monsoon rains…

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  • Now we wait

    Mac finished up his job list and sent it in. The Signal Corps list allowed you to request your top 15 posts and / or jobs. Mac wants to take command of a Signal company as his first key development job, so he listed the command jobs first.  Fort Gordon  /  Fort ShafterGermany  / …

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  • Picking our next home (no, we don’t know yet)

    Deciding where to move can be really stressful. Maybe I put too much into it, but I think of these sorts of decisions long term. When we were buying new dinnerware and silverware, it occurred to me that our children could grow up using this stuff. Heavy thoughts when buying Correlle, I know. Now we have…

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