First living Medal of Honor recipient to receive honor for quite some time... on February 26, 2007, President Bush presented the Medal of Honor to retired Lt. Col. Bruce Crandall for actions he did under fire as a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War. He was played by Greg Kinnear and his action are recreated as part of the good (but very violent) movie, "When We Were Soldiers".

As for news from me personally, I can tell things have changed slightly for me. One of my roommates is on leave, while another has changed to a totally different job with a shift totally opposite from mine, and so I can go up to 2 days without being in a situation in which I would even say a word to him. Awkward to say the least. Meanwhile, I may be able to go on another "route clearance" mission, which usually are a nice break from the monotony of supply work. Bad news? People don't worry about being blown up while issuing socks.

Wow, it's been a long, long time since I last posted, probably because 1) While on leave, I was trying to focusing on anything but stuff involving Iraq, including this blog, and 2) Recently many military networks, including many FOBs and possibly all of them, have blocked off blogspot based blogs(which the large majority of miliblogs are based off of) from their networks, making it possible to see or manage those blogs only via private servers, which can't stop me, but eliminates a huge section of possible viewers in the overseas military, including some of my biggest fans in the 875th supply section.
I did enjoy my leave, by the way, got to go to bed late at night and sleep later(my personal mission, since I haven't slept past 10am in months), went to the Arkansas Sportshow and continued my tradition at cheating at getting fish at it's trout tank(I'm snagging them, and you'll just have to catch me if you can....which by the way, they did again this year). I also did get to hang out at Jonathan Carmack's house to watch the Super Bowl, including the Super Bowl commercials not shown on the Armed Forces Network's viewing of the game. Finally, just days after I got home, it snowed. Like, couldn't make to to town in my own car snowed. The timing of it all couldn't be much better.
The two weeks flew by, however, and now I find myself back in the Sandbox, and doing business as usual. I am now about done on work that I'm having done to my bed (which I will call the "Beasley bed", named after the guy who came up with it), and will show a new picture of my room real soon. Stay tuned.