Army life

A year ago today, Mac came from after a 367 day deployment to Afghanistan. Considering we went eight months from when he left to R&R, the four months to the end of his tour breezed by (we spent three months apart several times my senior year of college). Huge ass thanks to me awkwardly standing over his stuff….

And it’s Tuesday already. Whoops. Saturday, Mac and I ventured up to the gorgeous Pinehurst Resort for St. Barbara’s Ball. The 18th Fires Brigade reserved rooms at a discounted rate, and we wound up checking in around 12:30. Much to our surprise, we would be staying in a two-bedroom condo out on Pinehurst Lake instead…

I’m pretty sure patron saints exist for every single, random thing including the United States Army Artillery. Apparently, St. Barbara converted to Christianity against the wishes of her pagan father. Long story short, she was martyred by her father, and he was smited (smote?) by lightning after beheading her. So patron saint of lighting =…

Since a vast majority of military members are male and a good number married, it’s only natural that their wives get together. Officers’ wives have a grand, old tradition of “coffee groups” where the ladies meet up for coffee or lunch and gossip shamelessly (see the show “Army Wives” for perpetration of said stereotype). Mac’s…