25 October 2005
About Me
- Name: american short-timer
- Location: whereabouts unknown
writing for those who can't
short - tim·er shôrt tī'mer noun
1. one nearing the end of a contractual term of service; a military enlistee at the end of a tour.
2. one arrested in service past a mutually agreed upon date after invocation of an executive order.
3. one at the proverbial end of his proverbial rope.
Inference: declining institutional loyalty proportionate to the nearing of one's Expiration Term of Service.
See also: Boobus Enlisticatus.
ALSO:
I am not in Iraq and I am not currently in the Army and I am not getting my ass shot at. This site is in compliance with MNC-I #9 as per FICI-CE-I, DoD Directive 5230.9 and AR 25-1, etcetera etcetera andsoforth.
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Charlie Yankee Alpha... out.
there's more
- the mother of all shoutouts
- if only
- obsolete
- who's on first
- almost normal
- out of order
- by special request
- what becomes of the purple hearted
- last laughs 'n whatnot
- wiggin' out
live each day as though it were to be your last, and one day you're sure to be right.
--Harry Harbord Morant
3 Comments:
it's just a jump to the left...
Thought you'd been quiet the past few days :o) Great stuff again. I'm exhausted reading it. Pant pant. And can taste the sand. And can taste the fear. And can taste the hoplessness.
Take care
Charlie
Get Ct and go to a seance...he's taken a bloody picture of a place in Glascow that caught his attention...I dared him to go...double dared ....have you been to one?
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