Icepunk's blog

I'm back

Icepunk — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:13:55 -0500

Hey. I'm back in the states visiting for a few days to take a break from my insane schedule as an MP.

Germany

Icepunk — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:12:20 -0400

Wow. So much has happened in the past year that I don't even know where to begin.

Hairspray

Icepunk — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:04:16 -0400

Well, it's been a long week, but the weekend is finally here!

PT was brutal this morning. I'm definitely going to be sore for a couple of days.

I met this girl Lindsay and we've been hanging out lately. Tommorrow we're taking the strassebahn down to Heidelburg. She's really cool and she's become one of my closest friends because other than Adkins I don't really know anybody here.

My weekend in Mannheim

Icepunk — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:34:20 -0400

I've moved into an apartment on a tiny military base 10 minutes away from downtown Mannheim!

I had a great weekend, me and my buddy Adkins walked around the entire downtown Mannheim area and went to a couple of outdoor rock concerts. We also found an underground discotheque where they play techno.

Yesterday we met a couple of really cute German girls who asked us where we were from and if we had girlfriends (!!!). We said no and that we weren't looking for any (because they were 17 and we're both 19).

Iceunk in Germany

Icepunk — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:12:12 -0400

Hey guys Im in an internet cafe in Germany trying to type on a jacked up German keyboard.

Ive been assigned to an MP company on a really tiny base here. My company is so small that they cant even deploy us until we get more ppl - theres 7 guys in my entire platoon right now! Which means I'll get promoted really quickly.

Germany is pretty cool. I have the weekend off so me and my battle buddy Adkins - a guy i went to basic and academy with - are walking around this huge city here. Its like being on vacation down here... how many ppl get to see stuff like this?

More later. Peace out.

Fond Memories of Boot Camp

Icepunk — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:26:06 -0400

- Faceplanting off the cattle truck - right at my Drill Sergeant's feet.

- The first words I heard when I got off the cattle truck at my company barracks: "Welcome to 'The Rock'."

- "Shark Attack" - getting smoked within the first .00004 seconds of arriving at basic training.

- Running the bayonet course with my battle buddy Fiasco and almost gouging my eye out.

- The gas chamber. Nuff said.

- M16 Qualification day - Drill Sergeant Busick pinning a Sharpshooter medal on my body armor and saying "Good job."

Yay! I'm back!

Icepunk — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:57:04 -0400

I'm back!

I graduated on Thursday from the U.S. Army Military Police Academy, and now I'm back in Ohio working for my recruiter. I had a lot of fun with MP training, and I miss my platoon terribly, but I'm really glad to be back home. I'll be posting some photos of me with guns and humvees and stuff very soon.

WID

Icepunk — Sun, 27 May 2007 17:29:37 -0400

The president is withdrawing all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and is sending a WID (Weapon of Icepunk Destruction) to neutralize the terrorist threat.

Massive casualties are expected.

Well, another week of learning how to kill people and break things has passed, and there's only 3 weeks left until graduation! I'm so looking forward to going home.

Icepunk the MP

Icepunk — Sun, 06 May 2007 11:55:10 -0400

6 more weeks to go!

Yo. Our company got in trouble last week, so I didn't get to go on pass and blog.

Last week we took our Phase 4 PT test, and I rocked it. I did 50 pushups, 60 situps, and a 13:30 2 mile run. I love running, I run in Alpha group now - the most elite running group. Twice a week we go running and run 6 or 7 miles at an amost sprinting pace. It's crazy, we come back soaked in sweat and wheezing. I could have done at least 75 pushups and over a 100 situps, because that's how many I do when I work out on my own, but we only had 2 minutes to do them in.

Cop school

Icepunk — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:41:57 -0400

Well, I'm back from another week of cop school. It's been awesome so far, it's all stuff that I need to know to be an MP. No more going out to the range all day, no more MREs for breakfast, lunch, and sometimes dinner, no more coming back to company all dirty, sweaty and tired; we just go to class for like half the day and then we get to go to the gym or chill in the barracks. I love cop school!

Ice is back! Online, anyway...

Icepunk — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:10:37 -0400

Hey. I just wanted to let you guys know how I'm doing. Sorry I haven't posted in, like, 3 months, but this is the first chance I've had to get online since I arrived in St. Louis. The only reason I'm on now is because I'm on pass.

I'm in AIT now; I graduated Basic on April 4th which means I'm a Soldier now!

Basic was a lot of fun, it was hard because I was so homesick and we didn't get any personal time. AIT is different though, we do PT in the morning, go to class all day, then we get like an hour or two to do whatever before lights out.

Icepunk in the Army, Part 1

Icepunk — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:02:28 -0500

Hello, everybody; this is actually Malex. Icepunk is in Basic Training right now, and he can't visit the site himself. So instead, he's sent me a letter to post in his blog for him.

The letter is dated last Monday, so keep that in mind when you read it. Also, don't forget to post comments! On Friday evening/Saturday morning I will lock out additional comments, print them all out, and send them to Icepunk in the mail. So if you want to send him some encouragement, commenting here is a fine way to do it.

Missouri

Icepunk — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:05:34 -0500

Hey guys, Ice here. I'm at an airport in St. Louis, Missouri waiting for a bus to take me to Basic.

Somehow, the Army thought I was Team Leader material and put me in charge of six other kids (who are several years older than me) on the trip up here. I know, it's crazy... this girl told me that they're probably testing me to see what I can do.

I've spent most of the day talking, sleeping or worrying about my luggage and the crapload of my team's papers that I'm responsible for. If I lose anything, I'm hosed and they could be hosed.

I got promoted already!

Icepunk — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:07:53 -0500

After being in the Army for just 10 days, I got promoted to PV2 this morning, which is basically a higher rank of Private than I used to be. It means that I'll actually have a rank insignia in Basic Training and I get paid a lot more money.

Joining the Army

Icepunk — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:13:11 -0500

I signed my contract and got sworn in yesterday!

It was a long, painful process (I got there at 6am and didn't get sworn in until 3pm), but I'm now officially a Soldier in the U.S. Army, and if I don't report to MEPS on January 30th, the Army (not so subtly) threatened to send Military Police after me.

I should also mention that while I was at Military Processing, I met a mutual friend of mine and Malex's (the brother of the guy who lives in Mount Vernon who got married). He was joining the military too! The crazy thing is that I haven't seen him in about a year and the place we meet at is a Military Processing Station!