Guilt Trip

As I was watching the Fox News coverage of our Marines in Fallujah it occurred to me that I have been home from OEF for just a little over six months. It seems like a lifetime. I got home in late April and in that time I have accepted a new set of orders for a job a didn't really want in a place I surely didn't want to go. It seems like a million years since I finished my time with CJTF-HOA. That is the way of things, you go where the Navy sends you and you do your duty to the best of your ability. I still feel guilty that my tour is over and I am at home when so many are still over there. That feeling was very acute as I watched the coverage of the current offensive and then I felt even more guilty that I was feeling guilty about not being deployed to OIF/OEF when I am blessed to be home with my family. I am sure that keeping my Submarine Squadrons financially and materially sound is just as important as anything I could be doing in the CENTCOM AOR but it sure doesn't feel like.

TO THE TYRANT NEVER YIELD