Well my favorite college basketball team, UK, dispatched IUPUI with relative ease as expected. The game was a pretty easy one, so I did not bother to watch. Routinely I peeked in to CNN to see what the score was, but my mind was a million miles away. I am dreading bad news about any American casualties, I can't imagine what some of the families of the soldiers must be going through. I suppose the worst part is the not knowing. I hope that this can be wrapped up soon with a minimal loss of life. Perhaps as more and more ground is gained and the situation becomes more and more hopeless the Republican Guard will give up. I certainly hope so.
Being an Officer...a Black one.....is sometimes hard. [Howard Rollins from "A Soldier's Story"] Sometimes being an Officer is difficult....not because of hard tasks, short timelines, or all of the worries involved in the care of your Soldier's, but the aura of professionalism and objectivity that you must display at all times. There have been many times that I have wanted to make a comment, yell, cuss at someone, or otherwise let my personal feelings be known about a subject, but unfortunately I could not because of my position. Let me tell you about two incidents that bothered me in particular. I was in Dallas Ft. Worth airport waiting to catch a flight on the last leg of my TDY trip to help a returning unit at Ft. Sill. As I went to my gate, I saw 4 Sailors in their black uniforms gathered at the gate...one was large and white, the other three were black. There was very little room, and many of them were standing intermingled with civilian airline passengers...
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