Parenting Gone Wrong

In today’s world how can you expect your kids to turn out okay without ruling with an iron fist of tyrannical authority? In the case of Miley Cyrus I am sad to announce that spanking must not have worked on her. Maybe if Billy Ray used a wooden spoon like my mom, then his precious…

The Rocks keep coming

Well recently our esteemed platoon sergeant decided to detain (arrest) any elder that was involved in allowing the kids to throw rocks at his soldiers. His idea behind this was to threaten them with jail if they continued to allow kids to fling rocks at us. The theory worked for a few weeks but these…

The art of Peacefulness

In my job as a United States Infantryman there are a lot of stresses that we have and need to overcome. Most of these stresses result from combat, but a lot of them also come from family problems that we can not do anything about while we are deployed. For example I just recently found…

Rock Flinging 101

Well some of the people who read my blog to keep up with my daily life over here in Afghanistan really liked the bit I wrote on slingshots. So with that said one of my associates (who shall remain anonymous) and I have decided that I should continue writing about the sport of rock flinging….