Another week down

I thought I would sit down and wrap up this week and start looking forward to the next.  Much like every other job in the world, this past week was just nice and standard.  That is one thing that is funny about the Army.  Predictability is actually involved.  My day starts way too early, and ends way too late.  Not much to say about that one.    Thankfully, this will be a short week so I will be able to spend some time and home and help finish setting up the house.  Moving in the Army is something that, while normal, seriously screws up any and all sense of normalcy.  Seeing your house loaded into a truck, and then unpacking it a few thousand miles away from the last time you saw it is fun.  Insert sarcasm here.  Then, you have to hope beyond hope that the moving company did not destroy your property.  Then, comes the trying to get your house back into order, while at the same time, getting back into the groove of Army life.

On a completely different topic, I know in my las post I said that I would stay away from politics, and I intend to do that.  However, I have to put my two cents in for a great organization that is taking care of, and addressing Veteran issues as they arise for this next generation of heroes.  Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (www.iava.org) is a great organization, founded by Veterans in 2004.  This group pushed the new GI Bill, and are constantly working on issues, including VA benefits, PTSD treatment, and how we, as a society can better take care of those who protect freedom.  Please, if anyone reads this blog, visit their website and join or donate.  This is work that is honorable, and allows all of us to do what is right for our Veterans.  I am proud to say that I am a member, and am volunteering in Georgia to bring awareness to these issues and to get my peers and younger Soldiers that I work with involved in their futures.