Some of the information given here may seem choppy or inconclusive. This is a “running blog” and a continuation of a much greater story. You are encouraged to go to the main web-site to catch-up or read previous blogs. These blogs tell the story of Christian I (100% DAV, homeschooling pastor-dad with M.S.) and Christian II (son 3 years old-T1 diabetic)-BOTH TRYING TO RAISE MONEY FOR SERVICE DOGS!
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Christian I – Good morning. I’m led to write about SSG
(Staff Sergeant) X again. As I mentioned before “I bear him no malice now”.
However in the field I couldn’t stand him. I just can’t stop thinking about
those famous words “Kawsn kept cha head dawn” (Translated, “Carlson, keep your
head down”) every time a vehicle passed by.
Part of me also feels bad because I
can remember several missions where the platoon was on the move and he tried
that “punchy” business you know; that foolish micro managing, and everybody and
the platoon sergeant came down hard on him in front of everyone. I can remember
one time the movement was actually stopped in the middle of the forest, and
everyone was called to circle around, and SSSG X was yelled at and “smoked up” for
being such a bonehead.
However, there was another time where he actually was my hero. The
platoon sergeant was trying to get rid of him for a while, so he came up with a
mission for me and SSG X. It was crazy, we could have been captured, but it
turned out to be very, very cool. Good training!
The objective was simple. SSG
X and I were to sneak through the wire at a weak point, destroy as many
vehicles as possible (by taking a camouflage paint stick and drawing a very big
star with a circle around it – sometimes five feet wide), to booby trap as many
port a potties as we could, tie up some people, and cause any other type of
trouble possible. Really good training!
This was an OPFOR mission, and the “enemy”
were POGS again, this time communications soldiers, about 2000 of them; all intense,
buried behind Constantino wire and our job was to teach them to fortify- by
acting as the enemy- and defend their
camp. I believe a little description is in order of the surrounding environment.
The time is about 2300 hours, and I can’t believe they paired me off alone with
this man. It was a full on again and basically no cloud cover. SSG X and I were
all camouflaged up and were ready to go, but we left the capots (helmets) on
and put our uniforms on so that they were not inside out (you will recall from
our last blogs that the POGS complained that they “could not see us” so we had
to reverse our uniform tops-we cheated- there were only two of us against 2000.
I was wrong- I caved. LOL. ), so that we could blend in with the enemy.
The
only other difference from the last mission was that I had a rather large
machine gun with me (S.A.W – squad assault weapon). It’s important for you to remember that we had
many grenade simulators and that my machine gun had a 250 round drum and I had
a spare with me also. And….. I’m going
to have to stop there, because this blog is getting too long.
It’s another really cool mission. I will tell you that at
least one person is physically marked for life because of me! Stay tuned. Was
it me? Come back tomorrow to find out.
Today is my daughter’s birthday! We have several things
planned to celebrate, and I have to go so that I can get to them! LOL. I will
not say anything more about my health today, except that it is a good training
day! LOL.
Christian II – It’s also a good training day for little
Christian. His numbers were very high and he required a site change. You see,
the site is where the insulin is delivered for his pump, through a tube, and
into a needle in his backside. This is his site, sometimes however (for a
million reasons) it doesn’t work either the site was bumped and the needle
bent, inhibiting the insulin for getting delivered, or his body creates an
abscess which blocks the insulin from getting through.
I don’t think so many of
my friends understand this whole diabetic healthcare system is a “house of
cards” – just waiting to fall. We need that dog! I know you’ll help us. Just pray that others would help too
because sadly there are too few.
God bless you friend... :)
HERE IS A COPY OF A FAIR BANNER THAT WE MADE LAST MONTH...(MIXED EMOTIONS)...
