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- Letters of recommendation
- The timeline
- First meeting with my OSO
- Scheduled for medical exam & diagnostic PFT
- Medical Exam & Diagnostic PFT
- More letters of recommendation
- Letter from dentist part 1
- EPSQ
- Scheduled for the ASTB
- ASTB part 1
- ASTB part 2
- ASTB part 3
- Cycloplegic eye exam
- Letter from dentist part 2
- Contract signed
- Final PFT
- Not selected
- Unofficially pre-selected for 191
- Flight physical part 1
- Flight physical part 2
- I got in, it’s official
- Nervous?
- SSgt Gomez
- Jeffrey’s Uncle
- Last class
- OCS pack list
- Preship PFT
- One week away
- Gone to OCC 191
- Liberty
- Halfway through Hell
- NPQ
- Back in Boston
- Femoral neck fracture
- Ten day update
- SULE II
- Letter from Lieutenant General Mattis
- Adventures at Hanscom
- Screwed
- Charlie Company graduates sans Openbah
- Five week update
- Jack and Randy, on their way to Quantico
- YMCA
- Electrical stimulation
- My name is Civilian-Candidate-2nd Lt-Sgt-Pvt-Openbah…
- New Air Force uniforms?
- Twelve week update
- 4-month update
- Knowledge for OCS
- Eighteen week update
- Trip to Newport Naval Hospital
- Letter from Maj Chris Brewster
- MRI
- Surgery likely
- 6 months later, finally some good news
- Motivation – Cpl. Nick Beberniss
- 7 month update, and one of the last!
- PLC-Seniors? I thought you were OCC…
- 8 month update
- 8.5 month update, and the last for a while
- Optimism
- Let’s Say Thanks
- And so it begins. Again.
- 10 month update
- From Father to Son, Last Words to Live By (NY Times)
- Every U.S. military branch exceeds its 2006 reenlistment goals
- Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Doesn’t Work?
- Public Storage sells Army Specialist’s belongings while deployed in Iraq
- Army Sgt in Iraq orders mats, receives insult
- 11 month update
- Iraq and Afghanistan veterans honored at Harvard
- One year update
- America is at the mall
- Five and a half weeks
- 1 year, 11 days
- Trip to Newport Naval Hospital, part II
- 13 month update
- iPod saves Soldier’s Life
- Say it ain’t so, Target!
- 14 month update
- Doctor’s notes (May 1st visit)
- Successful surgery
- New scar
- 12-day follow up
- Crutch-free, hopefully for good this time
- Profiting off dead soldiers?
- Cleared by ortho docs
- Training not going so well
- Army doc no show
- Going to Newport tomorrow
- Hope?
- 18 month followup
- Avascular necrosis of the hip
- MRI explained
- More detailed description of free vascularized fibular grafting
- Appointment at Columbia University
- Surgery scheduled
- Two months until my FVFG
- Surgery three, one month away
- Surgery pushed back one week
- Giving up on sleep
- Surgery pushed back, again
- New tentative surgery date
- Surgery date of March 14th finalized
- Surgery tomorrow
- Surgery went well
- Some incision photos
- 2 week follow-up appointment
- More details on my surgery
- Post-op X-rays
- 1 month post-FVFG follow-up
- 6-weeks post-FVFG
- 2 month post-FVFG follow-up
- 3 month post-FVFG follow-up
- 4 month post-FVFG follow-up
- 5 month post-FVFG follow-up
- Unfit for duty
- 6 month post-FVFG follow-up
- Physical Evaluation Board results
- Waiting to register with the VA
- At a stand-still with registering with the VA
- TDRL orders and the VA
- 9 month post-FVFG follow-up
- Received my TDRL packet
- Finally getting registered with the VA
- Two appointments scheduled with the VA
- First two appointments with the VA
- VA is currently assigning my rating
- Rating received
- 16 month post-FVFG follow-up
- Post-9/11 GI Bill
- Marine OCS blogs
- Post-9/11 GI Bill update
- Second semester at NYU
- Orders to Bethesda
- TDRL periodic physical examination
- It’s official, I’m retired
- Retirement certificate
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Medical
- NPQ
- Back in Boston
- Femoral neck fracture
- Ten day update
- Adventures at Hanscom
- Screwed
- Five week update
- YMCA
- Electrical stimulation
- Twelve week update
- 4-month update
- Eighteen week update
- Trip to Newport Naval Hospital
- MRI
- Surgery likely
- 6 months later, finally some good news
- 7 month update, and one of the last!
- 8 month update
- 8.5 month update, and the last for a while
- Optimism
- 10 month update
- 11 month update
- One year update
- 1 year, 11 days
- Trip to Newport Naval Hospital, part II
- 13 month update
- 14 month update
- Doctor’s notes (May 1st visit)
- Successful surgery
- New scar
- 12-day follow up
- Appendectomy
- Appendectomy, one week later
- Crutch-free, hopefully for good this time
- Cleared by ortho docs
- Training not going so well
- Army doc no show
- Going to Newport tomorrow
- Hope?
- 18 month followup
- Avascular necrosis of the hip
- MRI explained
- More detailed description of free vascularized fibular grafting
- Appointment at Columbia University
- Surgery scheduled
- Two months until my FVFG
- Surgery three, one month away
- Surgery pushed back one week
- Giving up on sleep
- Surgery pushed back, again
- New tentative surgery date
- Surgery date of March 14th finalized
- Surgery tomorrow
- Surgery went well
- 2 week follow-up appointment
- More details on my surgery
- Post-op X-rays
- 1 month post-FVFG follow-up
- 6-weeks post-FVFG
- 2 month post-FVFG follow-up
- 3 month post-FVFG follow-up
- 4 month post-FVFG follow-up
- 5 month post-FVFG follow-up
- Unfit for duty
- 6 month post-FVFG follow-up
- Physical Evaluation Board results
- At a stand-still with registering with the VA
- TDRL orders and the VA
- 9 month post-FVFG follow-up
- Received my TDRL packet
- Finally getting registered with the VA
- Two appointments scheduled with the VA
- First two appointments with the VA
- VA is currently assigning my rating
- Rating received
- 16 month post-FVFG follow-up
- Second semester at NYU
- Orders to Bethesda
- Treating fractured hips
- TDRL periodic physical examination
- It’s official, I’m retired
- Retirement certificate
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