Army Insignia 101: A brief explanation of the insignia and patches found on Marissa's Army uniforms.

Alright, some of you have asked me questions about some of the pins, patches and other insignia you've seen on some of Marissa's Army uniforms in photos, etc. I'll give a little primer here explaining some of these.

Disclaimer: I've always been a big military history buff and my explanations here are those of a layman. I'm sure Marissa will come along and correct me should I misinform you.

US Army Captain's Rank Insignia

This is Marissa's rank. She is a commissioned officer, charged with leading Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) like Corporals & Sergeants and other enlisted solders, such as Privates, PFC's, and Specialists.

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This will be quick, because I haven't learned much....

I've learned....

• This is much easier than I thought...
• This is much much harder than I thought...
• When in doubt, Marissa is right...
• My things are now her things...and her things are still her things...
• I can either be right, or I can be happy.
• When we move into our house, my boy stuff (posters, wall decorations, etc.) will all be replaced by girl stuff.
• I shouldn't blog anything negative about my wife.

Today is February 23, 2007. Its been two months since my life endedI got married and just over one month that I've been on my own again. Marissa and I tied the knot on December 23, 2006...a full six months to the day before the date we had originally chosen. Of course all of you reading this already know about the wedding and you also know that we moved up our plans because of Marissa's mobilization back into the Active Army. But I guess for the sake of thouroughness if I intend to do better with my side of the blog and keep things up-to-date, I need to start back at the beginning.

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Ok everyone, I apologize for not taking the time to update this thing regularly. Everyone I know, my family, my friends, and even people I don't know have been giving me grief for having to look at the same blog entry for almost two months. Unfortunately, I don't have time at this moment to get 100% caught up seeing as how I'm running late to have dinner with the "in-laws", so I thought I'd give you a little primer of things to come.

The last few months have just blow by....everything happening so quickly. But I've experienced alot of things in such a short time and so I think I have enough material to entertain and amuse you for at least two minutes. (Once I am able to update this thing...)

Some topics that I'll be posting about:

- Marriage Update #1: What I've learned.
- "Mini" Honeymoon to Gatlinburg
- DHS Training in Alabama
- Funny calls from work
- My personal psychoanalysis of my wife
- My father

So please stay tuned in.....updates will be coming, starting this week.