Friday, May 20, 2011

24 Miles, 24 Hours Baghdad

I will be making a short video, hopefully every hour, as I run one mile every hour, for 24 hours.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Please read

Sorry I haven't written in a while but I have no excuse. God has been working in my life and I look forward to sharing some of that with you but the purpose of this post is to share with you another blog I found. http://helpjacquee.com/index.php

Please read her story and consider opening your heart and if you can't donate, send a message asking how you can help and share this site on your social networking sites. Also, please pray for Jaquee.

Thanks,

Brett

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Wednesday 23MAR2011

IDk why but for some reason I don't feel like being on camera tonight so I decided I'd just type it today. This morning I woke up at 0700 and got ready to run and then went over and woke up Sgt Dow and he got ready. We ran 3 miles with 30/60s the last half. We ended up at a pretty good pace, although I don't know exactly what the pace was. I then showered and went to work.

We were ready squad today so all morning I was on the computer, playing dominoes, and doing other things then after lunch we took our Humvee in and it had so many problems they just decided to do the annual service on it which wasn't due until next month but that way they would get all the problems taken care of.

When I got back I put away my helmet and almost immediately got a ride home. I spent the rest of the afternoon surfing the internet and then went to singing practice. Singing practice for the 1830 service was frustrating because first they were late getting the music so we only had a half hour and they used the time to nitpick songs I knew instead of learning the ones I don't know so two of the songs Chaplain White requested I haven't even gone over so I have to learn them from the iTunes version I downloaded. The practice for the morning service went over fairly well overall but there were only a few of us so we didn't even use microphones. It was pretty fun it had a campfire singing feel to it with all of us gathered around the guitarist.

After singing I went to the Moral Courage Movie Night. The movie was The Pursuit of Happyness. It was pretty nice. After that I came home and I've been trying to contact Lydia but I think her phone is dead or something. I'm trying to decide whether to go to midnight chow because I missed dinner.
Thanks for reading. 

Saturday, March 19, 2011

My first vlog attempt.

I realized after I filmed this that some things weren't clear so instead of redoing it I just decided to put some clarifications here. We weren't actually working with another unit, just another squad.
"Get suited up"- Put on body armor, helmets, gloves, safety glasses, and I wear a scarf for the dust.
"Outside the wire"- Anywhere outside of a US base.