Openbah / Journal of a Marine Officer Candidate

Category: Marines

  • America is at the mall

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    From the February 19th Kansas City Star: Photo by John Moore / Getty Images

  • Iraq and Afghanistan veterans honored at Harvard

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    Photo by Tom Fitzsimmons I attended a forum at Harvard last night, at which five veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan discussed leadership on the front lines. The veterans, 3 Army officers and two Marine Reserve officers, discussed how to be a successful leader in hostile situations. Major Ewers explained that during the most dire of…

  • 11 month update

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    Not much has changed since my last update. The leg feels great one week and terrible the next. The only time I know it’s going to hurt is when we’re going to get rain. I’ve scaled back my workout routine at the gym slightly, I don’t want to injure myself before my orthopedic appointment on…

  • Army Sgt in Iraq orders mats, receives insult

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    Sergeant Hess, a member of the U.S. Army currently serving in Iraq, is tired of sleeping on the “cold ground, which contains sand mites, sand flies and other disease carriers.” So Sergeant Hess tried ordering some mats to sleep on from Discount-Mats.com. He emailed the company asking if they ship to APO addresses. The reply…

  • Public Storage sells Army Specialist’s belongings while deployed in Iraq

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    After serving a year in Iraq, Army Reserve Spc. Patrick Rogalin came home and found that everything he had put in a storage locker – essentially everything he owned – had been sold. Several payments for the locker had bounced because someone emptied his checking account while he was gone. “It’s really insulting, after all…