• 24Feb 11

  United States Marine Corps...my new life

  Well I went to boot camp on September 13th 2010 and let me tell you its quite an experience. Life there was hell for 3 months straight of waking up at 4am and doing some sort of physical work out EVERY day to where your body was sore the next day. Fun stuff. I graduated on December 10th.

  Went home for about 18 days then went to MCT (Marine Combat Training) where I got to play with all the cool stuff you only see in video games. Actually MCT for me was absolutely miserable. I hated every minute of it because we went during January where it was VERY cold out. At MCT you do a lot of waiting around outside. For example one morning while at the range we woke up 6am (nice little sleep in) went outside in the 20F weather at chow while sitting on our flak-packs (look it up.) The busses were supposed to get there @ 8am but because of the recent snow storm that passed through a couple days prior the busses had some mechanical problems. The busses didn't get there till 10am. So 4 hours of sitting pretty much in 1 spot in 20F weather. Stuff like that made MCT extremely miserable. I graduated MCT on Jan 25th. Literally within 2 hours of graduating I was getting on an airplane from North Carolina to Fort Leonard Wood MO which is where my MOS school is and where I'm currently at.

  On Jan25th around 3:45 my plane landed in St. Louis MO. Since there were a lot of us coming in the bus was coming to pick us up till the last Marine got in which was around 10PM. The bus picked us up around 11PM and we drove about an hour and 45 mins South West to Fort Leonard Wood MO. I've been here ever since and I'm just now about to pick up in training. This is the busiest time of the year according to the Colonel I talked to during lunch a couple weeks ago. Life here isn't too bad. I had a bunch of money saved up from boot camp and MCT since you can't buy anything during those months so I bought a 15 inch MacBook Pro and it's awesome! Sold my old MacBook Air and about to sell my 64gb Wifi +3G iPad next week since I got this thing.

  Haven't much time to play Xbox 360 in the past 6 months and my aunt will be shipping my 360 to me tomorrow sometime. I need to catch up on my games. The internet sucks here when everyone gets on so XBL games will be a no go. I'll be playing the singple player games with a good story to them like Dead Space 2, Bulletstorm, and Fallout New Vegas which I just happen to bidding on on eBay at this very moment. haha

  For anyone that's interested in joining the Marine Corps and wants some no bs info on what its all about (up to what I've done so far) hit me up. Somethings I can't tell you because I think you should just experience them on your own. This is boot camp related.

  • Posted Feb 24, 2011 7:22 pm GMT
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• 3Mar 10

  I'm back!11!1!!!1

  Yes after many years I think I may just be back into the whole PC game. Why you ask? Well simply put my PC is outdated. I found this out when editing and making HD movies and noticed how long it was taking. I'm not a patient person so naturally I need more speed.

  My current rig is around 5 years old except my video card which is about 2.5 years old. This is what I'm looking at for my next rig by spring time...or sooner. Oh and everything is still going to be watercooled. To much of a hassle to not watercooler it. DAMN!
  
  i7 930 - might buy a good week so I can hit at least 4.3ghz+
  Asus Rampage II
  ATI 5970
  G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
  Sony SATA Optic drive
  Artic Silver Thermal Paste
  HEATKILLER 1366 Water Blocki7 930
  EK Radeon HD 5970 VGA Liquid Cooling Block
  Windows 7 Professional 64bit - coming from Vista Ultimate 32bit

  • Posted Mar 3, 2010 4:08 pm GMT
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• 9Jan 07

  Happy b-day to me! :)

  Turned the big 19 today. Didn't really do much. Went to school and work just like any other day.
  
  
  • Posted Jan 9, 2007 2:51 pm GMT
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