What Is Groundhog Day

Some of you folks have asked what groundhog day is. It has nothing to do with actual holiday, it refers a movie of the same name in which the main character is doomed to repeat the same day over and over again until he gets it right. In the Navy, and I guess the other services as well, it has term "Groundhog Day" has become a reference to life on deployment. We are damned to repeat the same day over and over again. Unfortunately, we aren't freed from the repetitive hell when we finally get the day right, we repeat the same day over and over again until we get home. In most cases you can't tell one day from the next on deployment. In fact, you pretty much even lose track of what day of the week it is. I only know because I take my malaria prophylaxis on Fridays and can expect really screwed up dreams through about Wednesday. Last night's prophylaxis dream was pretty whacked. Do any of you remember the old Star Wars arcade game from the 80's? The one where you are in X Wing flying down the Death Star trench? Well, I was IN THE GAME LAST NIGHT except it wasn't turbo laser towers and Tie fighters in the trench, it was German U-boats and Waffen SS Troopers. I distinctly remember piloting my computer X-Wing dodging torpedoes and gunning down SS Troopers and after I lasered a computer generated German SS Officer it dropped trow and mooned me. What is up with that. I am beginning to wonder if malaria pills are a mind altering drug.

TO THE TYRANT NEVER YIELD