Yeah, I guess I've had a pretty good run...
I was on Facebook and there's a DINFOS Alumni page. DINFOS, or Defense Information School at Fort Meade, Maryland, is where all the services send their Public Affairs people for training, officers, enlisted and civilians. So I add my name to the list and posted my 'PA bio.' I showed it to Dbie and said, "guess I've had a pretty good career..." Here's my post:
I graduated in Jul 2000 from the RC 46Q course. PA is the best job in the Army. I was part of the Nationwide Exercise in 2001. I went to JRTC in 2001. RSOI in Korea in 2002. I've had the privilege of being the PAO for the US military Pentathlon Team in 2002, 2004, 2005. I deployed to Bosnia in 2003. I deployed to Afghanistan in 2004/2005. I did a five-month tour at USARC headquarters in 2007. I was the print section sergeant and acting first sgt for the 204th MPAD; went to Bosnia with the 343rd MPAD; was in the 2125th and 3220th GSUs, I was the NCOIC at the Office of Military Cooperation - Afghanistan; First Sergeant for the 300th MPAD; and now the PA Ops Sgt for the 70th Training Division at Fort Knox.
I've been to Alaska, Korea, Germany, Bosnia, Hungary, France, Afghanistan, Qatar, Austria, Belgium, and all over the US. I've seen buffalo close enough spit on; I've driven through the Badlands of South Dakota; I ate dinner on the Danube River; I've stood at the base of the remnants of the Buddha statues the Taliban blew up in Bamian, Afghanistan; I visited the tomb of Mossoud, The Lion of the Panjshir; I stood in the mountains around Sarajevo and looked down on all the grave markers from the Bosnian War; I stood at the top of the Olympic Stadium in Sarajevo looking at the grave markers that filled one of the practice soccer fields; I celebrated ringing in 2005 in Kabul in a celebration I will never forget; I watched the sun set over St. Trope Bay in the South of France; I was in Afghanistan when theu elected President Karzai the first time; I watched Afghan children learn what Christmas is all about;
I was on Hooker Hill in Itewan in Seoul; I shot pool with a KGB agent is Seoul; I visited a Wild West town in Austria; I watched Russian Spetznatz give a martial arts display that left several of them bleeding; I got to see the most beautiful place in the world, the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan. I went shopping for rugs in Mazar-E-Sharif, Afghanistan; I got to meet and work with some of the coolest people in the Army, and, unfortunately, some of the most fucked up ones. All of this, because of US Army Reserve Public Affairs, the BEST job in the Army...
I graduated in Jul 2000 from the RC 46Q course. PA is the best job in the Army. I was part of the Nationwide Exercise in 2001. I went to JRTC in 2001. RSOI in Korea in 2002. I've had the privilege of being the PAO for the US military Pentathlon Team in 2002, 2004, 2005. I deployed to Bosnia in 2003. I deployed to Afghanistan in 2004/2005. I did a five-month tour at USARC headquarters in 2007. I was the print section sergeant and acting first sgt for the 204th MPAD; went to Bosnia with the 343rd MPAD; was in the 2125th and 3220th GSUs, I was the NCOIC at the Office of Military Cooperation - Afghanistan; First Sergeant for the 300th MPAD; and now the PA Ops Sgt for the 70th Training Division at Fort Knox.
I've been to Alaska, Korea, Germany, Bosnia, Hungary, France, Afghanistan, Qatar, Austria, Belgium, and all over the US. I've seen buffalo close enough spit on; I've driven through the Badlands of South Dakota; I ate dinner on the Danube River; I've stood at the base of the remnants of the Buddha statues the Taliban blew up in Bamian, Afghanistan; I visited the tomb of Mossoud, The Lion of the Panjshir; I stood in the mountains around Sarajevo and looked down on all the grave markers from the Bosnian War; I stood at the top of the Olympic Stadium in Sarajevo looking at the grave markers that filled one of the practice soccer fields; I celebrated ringing in 2005 in Kabul in a celebration I will never forget; I watched the sun set over St. Trope Bay in the South of France; I was in Afghanistan when theu elected President Karzai the first time; I watched Afghan children learn what Christmas is all about;
I was on Hooker Hill in Itewan in Seoul; I shot pool with a KGB agent is Seoul; I visited a Wild West town in Austria; I watched Russian Spetznatz give a martial arts display that left several of them bleeding; I got to see the most beautiful place in the world, the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan. I went shopping for rugs in Mazar-E-Sharif, Afghanistan; I got to meet and work with some of the coolest people in the Army, and, unfortunately, some of the most fucked up ones. All of this, because of US Army Reserve Public Affairs, the BEST job in the Army...
Yeah, I've had a pretty good career, and it's far from over...
posted by MSG Keith @ 10:26 PM
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