A mother’s PostSecret

I was browsing PostSecret.com when the Marine Corps emblem in this postcard caught my eye.

I wish it hadn’t.

Training days 1-13: two week recap

I’ve got two loads of clean laundry piled on my rack to fold and put away, Drill Card 1 to practice, a movement or two to memorize out of Book II, Individual Movements Without Arms, uniforms to prep, garbage to take out, my PT Pack to ready for the morning, and I’m wasting entirely too [...]

Admin day 2: Drill Instructor School

It’s DI school, class 1-08, Parris Island, South Carolina folks, and tomorrow is the official kick off.
I arrived Friday morning after a sixteen hour drive from Corunna, MI and basically wasted the weekend away working on this website and screwing off. It wasn’t a mistake, necessarily. There’s really nothing a man can do to prepare [...]