Ft Hood, Texas

I have been from FT Dix, NJ to March Air Base, California to FT Hood, Texas which is where I am currently. The accommodations have ranged from Barracks (Dix) to NICE hotel (California) to a concrete one man room in the middle of the scrub (FT Hood) I am currently trying to clear medical...which I must say is very difficult. The Army record keeping system is horrible and there are parts of my record scattered all over the place. My physical was taken in May 08' and was JUST processed in January 09' my blood sugar was flagged as high and I am testing my fasting blood glucose and A1C average tomorrow to send to the Army Human Resource Command Surgeon in ST Louis. He will decide weather or not I go forward. Many others are in the same boat. I have never seen the Army work so hard at trying to NOT mobilize folks...its amazing. Other than this wall I have hit with the Army this year, I would not trade it for anything. Its been great to me and I am TRYING to give it something back by going to Iraq, but the system is not helping me do that as swiftly as I would like. This last few weeks has been fun...like college again (with 60 pounds of gear and waking up at 0400). I pray it all works out for me...I have 19 years in so, Ill be locking in my retirement in 12 more months either way. Email me at the address on my blog and leave me notes, wifi is sparse but I can check it every other day or so.