Turning out to be one of the best days!
So I started the day by firing the first shots from and breaking in a brand new out of the box M320 40mm Grenade Launcher. Then I sent off my first set of cargo to Afghanistan. I arrived at the airport parking lot 20 minutes before my board time and made with time to spare, and now I 'll be topping it all off with my first hand of blackjack in Las Vegas with a friend I haven't seen in years. This is going to be awesome!

On a more serious note, this weekend is very important to me. Many people lose sight of memorial day and what it represents. I spent many years playing TAPS at memorial day services and remembering the fallen that have made this country so great. This weekend, my fir...

Turning out to be one of the best days!
So I started the day by firing the first shots from and breaking in a brand new out of the box M320 40mm Grenade Launcher. Then I sent off my first set of cargo to Afghanistan. I arrived at the airport parking lot 20 minutes before my board time and made with time to spare, and now I 'll be topping it all off with my first hand of blackjack in Las Vegas with a friend I haven't seen in years. This is going to be awesome!

On a more serious note, this weekend is very important to me. Many people lose sight of memorial day and what it represents. I spent many years playing TAPS at memorial day services and remembering the fallen that have made this country so great. This weekend, my first toast tomorrow night will be with my best friends from my graduating class at West Point. I will be toasting our fallen classmates Mario Hill, Joel Namy, Nick Rossini, and Fred Fox. I didn't know Mario or Joel very well, but I knew Nick and Fred from almost the beginning.

Everytime I've thought about this moment I've had this intense swelling of pride that I can serve alongside my fellow servicemembers and I've been tearing up every so often when the enormity of it all hits me. I mean, I'm serving in the famed 101st Airborne! The very same division that led the way during Operation Overlord and the invasion of Normandy!

I hope you all have a great memorial day, and if you see a soldier, sailor, marine, or even airman (haha) please tell them thank you.

UPDATE

So the night only got better! I ended meeting with a good friend I've known for 10 years and haven't seen for almost 6 years! We just both posted we were in vegas, saw it, and we were like "lets hang out!"

Ran around town for a while, sat down at a blackjack table and just played till 3 in the morning. I was down almost 200 at one point, came back to +150 and was going to get out but my friends wanted to play so I played until I was only +80. I figure I just paid for meals and drinks for a couple of days with a few hours of blackjack, not to mention the drinks were FREE!