Getting down to the wire on my time left at this instillation. I've been stationed at Fort Drum for the first 3 and a half years of my time in the military, and honestly it hasn't been horrible. I was thankful to be stationed in New York where family and friends back home were just a 6 hour drive away, I'm more comfortable with extreme cold weather than heat so the climate worked out nicely, and I've had a lot of great guys in my units. Deploying out of here was smooth and I'm satisfied with the way my time in Iraq went. Upon getting back I would say that being transferred to permanent garrison was the best thing professionally to ever happen to me. I learned a lot about law enforcement and got a lot of good experiences out of it. Not to be an arrogant prick, but it's probably not a stretch for me to consider myself one of the most competent law&order MPs on the instillation. It's the one thing in the military that I've really excelled in by receiving more positive community feedback, commendations from both garrison commander and the provost marshal, and more completed cases than any other MP currently on the road. I've met all the goals I set out for when I entered the military and still have 580 days left.

At this point I kinda feel like the same I did in the last weeks of high school; I honestly don't care about what's happening around me. I'm still doing my shift work (and due to personnel shortages will likely be on patrol until the day I go) to the best of my ability but I'm just not bothered by the bullshit as much since I'm leaving very soon. In between shifts I'm squeezing in my appointments to out-process and in between that I'm trying to drink away the part of the day that I can't sleep away.

I've been working to put a lot of personal shit in perspective and work on being a more satisfied individual. I've been going out with friends (both from my unit and a good guy I met in the area), been chatting a whole lot with the people who's company I value most, and looking forward to taking a little PCS leave with some buddies who have helped me out a lot recently. Not sure how well things are coming on this front; kinda just trying to fix myself. There's my little update on life at the moment for those who care. hah