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flickr: USS Essex With the ship in the rear view mirror and my career as a Marine coming to a close I have a feeling I’ll have a lot of free time once I get out. Worried that I might have a problem with being a sloth sitting on a couch watching Japanese TV for [...]

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While On Ship

It’s windy when you’re going 18 knots at midnight. Without the moon it’s hard to find the line between the sky and the ocean. You can hear the wave’s crashes but where they hit you can’t pinpoint. The noise is immense but it becomes soothing after awhile. *sigh* I am not cut out for this [...]

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Ship Media Decisions

“You are the winner!” I heard these words last night when I completed a game called Unreal Tournament 2004 and man, that game kicked my ass for awhile. While on deployment I beat Starcraft & Broad War, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2004, Shellshock: Nam ’67, Diablo 2: LOD, Scrabble, Doom 3, and F.E.A.R. Of course [...]

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Ship Log Part 3

Just not to confuse anyone but these entries are from my first few weeks on ship. Guess what? I am back on ship for another mission. I can’t talk about it, but just know that I only got to spend a few hours with Hiromi when we ported in Okinawa. Now I am back at [...]

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Ship Log Part 2

Ship log – Monday Losing count of the days so you’ll have to resort to a calendar to figure out how many nights have gone by without you noticing. If your one of the few Marines that showers every night then you will know the number of nights because the pain that the high pressure [...]

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