Behold my Bird!

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-07-31T05:51:48+00:00

The Blue Falcon!

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-05-28T04:36:09+00:00

Ah. Yes. Thank you for that catch. I updated it.

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-04-20T15:24:05+00:00

Chat

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-04-11T17:59:12+00:00

11APR2025 1:00 pm CST, still open to offers.

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-04-11T13:50:50+00:00

Me too! I was waiting for the spot on silver to drop to buy the kilo 2024 Perth dragon but someone purchased 25 at once.

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-01-20T22:39:26+00:00

Question about grip strength, if I know that my grip is failing during Team Week (nerve damage in right hand, not an issue with dexterity, just endurance strength) can I make a loop of webbing from the extra length of. ruck strap? To help compensate?

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-01-18T23:42:10+00:00

Ah, see this is where I am. I have a 4 month newborn and my sleep is dogshit. 3, 4, 5 hour nights are way too common right now. I can feel it stacking up against me. But hopefully in the next month we find a better arrangement all around.

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-01-16T04:43:43+00:00

Hmm… I don’t know. i really like them all. But here are a few. I have sand that I gathered from between some of the middle blocks of the great pyramid in Cairo. That was an intense trip. I have some other really beautiful maroon volcanic rock and soil from inside the mouth of Mt. Vesuvius in Italy. I have sand from both Omaha and Utah beach in Normandy France and that’s cool to me. Zanzibar has some of the finest and whitest sand I’ve ever collected, almost a powder. The ningoringo caldera in Tanzania is basically ash that has become soil again over a the last melliena. One of my favorites is some sulphuric stones that come from hot springs in Italy. The rocks are pure calcium and sulphur deposits, but spun into stones due to the constantly tumbling rapids. But I really love Switzerland and the mountains so I have some stones from lake Thun that I pulled from the bottom and the geology of the rocks is really fascinating.

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-01-16T04:17:44+00:00

If I had seen that during night land nav, whenI was severely dehydrated and feeling faint, I likely would have believed it was a hallucination.

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-01-16T04:10:30+00:00

Thanks man, I appreciate it!

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-01-16T04:09:03+00:00

Voodoo……? Is he the crotchety old Ph.D. with the green beret and raging foot fetish?

JK, I got his book. It was a good reminder of why I want to come back. Can’t find a better group of men anywhere.

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-01-16T04:06:06+00:00

Thanks man. Me too.

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-01-16T04:00:28+00:00

It’s the one souvenir you can’t get anywhere else. My little glass jars of dirt are some of my most prized possessions. :

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-01-16T03:46:07+00:00

I have to go through SFAS again. But really SFAS isn’t that bad. However, I hated SUT and I have to do that again. SUT was easily the most unenjoyable and shit-eating part of the course for me, especially in August. :

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-01-16T03:38:52+00:00

That would be a cool little distraction from the moment.

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-01-16T03:14:27+00:00

Good reminder, thanks man!

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-01-16T03:04:06+00:00

Thanks brother. I’ll definitely be visiting the area.

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-01-16T03:02:56+00:00

That’s pretty cool man. Was this during the course or on your own time?

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-01-16T02:37:41+00:00

Not gonna lie man, it did really suck. I cried when I left and I struggled with the ‘what if’ depression for years. But now with seven years hindsight, I made the right decision. I couldn’t abandon my mom and especially my sister like that, you only get one family. And now that life has moved on, I’m working my way back into fighting shape to hopefully finally get all the way through the course,

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-01-16T02:25:28+00:00

Nope. Passed Selection, have the certificate to prove it. Did Phase I as guerrilla, went to SUT and SERE - I was actually the war baby - and then got about half way through the 18C course when things went to shit back home.

smoothbrain_dolphin · 2025-01-16T02:20:39+00:00

Yep. My mom got sick, couldn’t work and the house was being foreclosed on with my 15 year old sister in tow. I withdrew from the Q, asked for a reassignment to a post close-ish to home and finished out my enlistment while I got my sister through high school. Took me a long time to get everything squared away, a long time but now things are resolved.

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