and belated Marine Corps birthday.

Today was a pretty sucky day even though we all got the day off. Woot for being in the military. It's been raining all day. And the rain is cold in Maryland. We went to the PX to pick up some school supplies and the power was out so we made our way to the Commissary and bought way too much food. Then we waited for the bus forever and came to the conclusion it just wasn't coming so we walked home in the rain. In the dark. With a bunch of groceries. Now imagine six Marines walking on the side of the road with five in cammies, in the rain, on Veteran's Day. And only one person offered us a ride which we couldn't take because the Marine Corps has weird strict rules. The soldier walking with us had no problems taking the ride though. Yeah so I'm just complaining for the sake of complaining. It was actually sort of fun until my fingers thawed out.

Our birthday was awesome though. Happy Birthday my fellow Devil Dogs! The Ball was last weekend and that was just amazing. There's nothing better than seeing a high ranking, older officer in his Dress Blues breakdancing to hiphop music. It was probably the strangest night of my life with Marines doing all sorts of things that shouldn't be done in the most senior uniform xD The actual birthday actually sorta sucked. Only the Marine Corps would find waking up at 0430 to run 5 miles in boots and utes motivating. The only fun part was waking up the Air Force but we do that every morning. Then we had a cake ceremony instead of morning chow and no one could eat the cake. Motivating. Only the Marine Corps. On the plus side we all got to yell Happy Birthday at each other instead of the usual Ooh-rah.

And on that note, the Army needs a new war cry. They sound like dying whales. Especially the females. No offense. It's just ear-rape. And they say is more than we say Ooh-rah. "How was lunch?" "Ouhhh.." "What'd you eat?" "Ouhhh.." Yeah... they should probably just change it before I go crazy on this oh so amazing Army base.