everbody say hi to pat. i work with pat. pat’s an allright guy. pat’s been away and just got back last night.

pat is a sergeant in the u.s. army. he’s active duty. he’s been deployed for the last 6 months.

in baghdad.

i don’t think he got out of the airport (BIAP) much. good thing.

of course i could go the ….. ‘i support our troops’ route with this. but that’s not what i was thinking when i snapped the pic.

we were on our way to lunch at ‘big chinese’. i have no idea what the real name of that restaurant is. just a really big chinese buffet.

anyway, while in my car, with simplyme, and big mike, he related to us a few of his ‘experiences’. and a few other facts.

anybody think the military doesn’t earn their pay.?

pat was deployed 6 months.

he had 1 day off. you read that correctly. ONE day off. he worked 179 days out of 180.

he worked 12 hour days too. 9pm to 9am.

what’s he make? 25k or so? man, is he getting screwed!

first opportunity i get, i’m buying pat a beer. hell, i may get him a little sumthin extra to go with it.