I was hyped up yesterday to go out on my first mission since the last time I was deployed and what should have been a teaching conference where our Doctors taught Iraqi Doctors turned into waiting for our Iraqi Police escort to show up...which didn't. Nowadays, due to our Status of Forces Agreement we can't just go willy-nilly wherever we want to. If we're out in the towns especially we're supposed to have an escort from Iraqi Security Forces or Police. If they don't show up it's no dice.
I visited with some 701st Soldiers a couple days ago and put up a shout-out video from them. As a note to any 1ID families who may be reading this and want to see your Soldier: Don't worry, we've got a year ahead of us. We'll eventually get around to everybody...who wants to be on camera.
You find a lot of people who are camera-shy in the military. Some people stiffen up, some get nervous and shaky and some flat-out refuse to be on camera unless mandated by their Commander. We still get shy and nervous people on camera. We just have to utilize a highly technical process known as 'buttering them up' and 'breaking the ice'. A lot of the time, it's literally like pulling teeth to get people on camera. In the past, I haven't been above playing the pity card aka "I have to interview someone for this story. Can you help me out...please?" accompanied by the saddest, pitiful look I can muster. (I probably shouldn't be telling you all my secrets)
Last night, the Muse struck me and I made this awesome trance remix of the Army Strong song. It's just a rough cut and due to our bandwidth limitations I was only able to upload a low-res/low bit-rate (i.e. crappy) video. Anyway, I might use it in some sort of motivational hoo-ah type video later. One of my long-term projects is to make a History Channel-ish documentary of our deployment to Iraq so maybe I'll use it in the end credits. :P
My DJ name is most aptly...DJ Colletta. I DJ'd at a few clubs when I was living in Hawaii, on the 1's and 2's (Mixer and Turntables) with the classic 12" vinyl records. These days my record collection collects only dust but, I still dabble around with music production and I've been working for a while on an album called RemLand: In Memory of...
It's mostly for funs. I don't expect I'll become a world-famous DJ sensation overnight. I sort of have that classic Jack of all Trades, Master of None curse.
I also started working on writing a story last night. I've been into reading and creative writing since I was a kid. One of my goals is to actually finish writing at least one of my books while I'm out here. I've written short stories but I've never really finished anything more than 10 pages. So I started writing F.O.G. V.S. F.O.E. a classic good versus evil story in sort of a comical combination of religion, science-fiction and fantasy.
When I'm not working I've got plenty of stuff to do. Work out at the gym, play video games, read books, etc.
These days an awesome laptop is pretty much all you need to stay entertained.
I also got this big rock and I'm currently looking for another one. I'm going to call them my "PT ROCKS". Ta-Tch! (cymbal hit) I'm going to use them to do curls, shrugs, squats and stuff like that.
While it sucks being away from the family deployments are a great time to do things you don't normally have time to do even though you still don't have a whole lot of time to do them, like sit down and meditate for example.
Today I got shout-outs from Soldiers in the 2nd BN, 32nd Field Artillery Regiment. So once again, it's time to edit!
Cheers,
~RC
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