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Welcome to Aggiefamily.com, a place to post miscellaneous stuff that clutters my mailbox and grabs my attention on my ride on the Information Superhighway (thanks, Al Gore, for creating this medium). This site also poses as a testing ground for my production site (Marsmen.org).
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Posted on Wednesday, February 19
My mailing address at Fort Stewart
Posted by watts on Monday, September 01, 2008 (13:36:01) (3 reads)
Here's the mailing address at Fort Stewart:
SFC Wyatt, James M
A/1-124 CAV, TF Knight
845 HASE ROAD, STE 102
FT STEWART, GA 31315
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Fort Stewart, Georgia
Posted by watts on Sunday, August 31, 2008 (13:56:14) (3 reads)
My Squadron just completed training at Fort Wolters (Mineral Wells), Texas. It consisted mostly of weapons ranges and the month we spent there flew by pretty quickly. We are now at Fort Stewart, Georgia, where we will complete our premobilization training and processing. We arrived throughout the day last Thursday with the latest arrival being Friday morning on the red eye. I got here just before midnight and spent the first hours of my birthday on a bus from Hunter Army Airfield to Fort Stewart. The accommodations here are slightly better than Fort Wolters, where we had no functioning air conditioning in the living area. The humidity is borderline unbearable here but the scenery isn't bad. Spanish moss drapes over the oak and pine trees and mosquitoes the size of small birds carry off the occasional soldier for some blood sucking. It apparently rained a solid two weeks before we got here so we're dealing with the effects of that. The training schedule is pretty filled up, though these first few days here have been pretty light and full of a lack of common sense on the part of certain certifying parties. We've gotten our immunizations and the anthrax shot hurts more than I remembered. I've been pretty busy and taking pictures hasn't been much of a priority for me. I'll try to remember to take more as training starts to kick off.
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San Antonio Trip
Posted by watts on Wednesday, July 09, 2008 (21:26:46) (18 reads)
Pictures from the San Antonio trip to Sea World and the Zoo are now posted in the Family section of the Gallery.
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Cancun Pictures Uploaded
Posted by watts on Sunday, June 29, 2008 (22:19:13) (44 reads)
I finally got the pictures from the Cancun vacation we took last month uploaded to the website. You'll find 233 photos in the gallery. I'll throw a couple of videos on the front page of the site when I get the opportunity to upload them later. I am no where near being caught up with photo uploads but maybe I'll have time next month since the training tempo will be a little slower.
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Finished with Fort Polk
Posted by watts on Sunday, June 29, 2008 (22:08:03) (21 reads)
I have finished up training at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana. Three weeks of training that included convoy situational training lanes, weapons' qualification, and individual warrior task training proved to be rather tiring and, at times, frustrating for all involved. I'm the Platoon Sergeant for 2nd Platoon, Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron, 124th Cavalry. As most who know me are aware, I've been with this Cavalry Squadron for my entire career in the National Guard, with the exception of my deployment to Bosnia with HHC, 49th Armored Division eight years ago. I'm a proud cavalry scout and have been waiting for the opportunity to lead a scout platoon into combat for a long time. It will prove to be challenging as I begin to develop my platoon, which is comprised mostly of "fillers" from other units across the state, very few of which are actually cavalry scouts. Our mission remains up in the air and even if I knew it, I won't be talking about specifics here anyway.
My platoon has made it to Fort Wolters in Mineral Wells, Texas and will be here for a few more days before moving back to Waco to release for the 4th of July. I'll be back on orders again following the holiday and at this point, I have no idea what I'll be doing during the period between now and our next training period in August. We'll be in Fort Wolters again at the end of July and will remain here until our Federal active duty orders kick in, at which point, we'll begin the official preparation for deployment to Iraq. I'll get into more of that later.
Fort Wolters, located in Mineral Wells, was an old World War 2 training camp and during Vietnam, was an Army aviation training camp. The most significant part of its history, as far as I'm concerned, is that it was the drilling location for F Troop, and specifically, Jack Knight, the only Medal of Honor recipient in the China Burma India theater of operations in World War 2. F Troop was part of my Cavalry Regiment and Fort Wolters served as the drilling grounds for one of the last horse cavalry regiments in the US Army. Jack Knight served at the commander for F Troop and served along with his brother Curtis, who was the Troop First Sergeant. I had the pleasure of meeting his youngest brother, Bill, who happens to live in Mineola and also happens to know Kristi's grandmother....small world. Learn more about the Regiment at the other website I maintain, http://marsmen.org.
Internet access, while present, is miserably slow through the tethering on my phone so photos will be uploaded while I'm home for the holiday. Unfortunately, I didn't take many pictures but promise to make up for it in August and when we get to our mobilization station.
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Boy, have I been neglecting this site or what?
Posted by watts on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 (20:05:01) (40 reads)
Some brief updates:
- I stopped working on 16 May and took my three weeks of accrued vacation to carry me through 7 June.
- Got back from our Cancun vacation on Sunday...Wow, I have a new found respect for the Mayan culture. We visited Chichen Itza, Tulum, and Xel-ha. Chichen Itza left me in awe, Tulum was beautiful, and Xel-ha was fun. I know I've been a little negligent with the pictures and updates, so I'll try to get caught up with pictures tonight or tomorrow.
- 7 June is my first active duty order. I'll be gone for a month and back home for July 4th. Then it's up in the air for the rest of July until the 26th, when I have to report back to Waco. I'll be put on the mobilization orders around that time and I'm off to Fort Stewart within the next couple of weeks. No exact times can be given for the obvious reasons, but I'll try to post pretty frequently once I leave. I'll hopefully have the new website up and with that I'll be able to post directly to the site from my phone...with pictures too. I'll have Internet access through my phone while I'm in the States and will most likely get a SIM card in Iraq since my cell phone is a global phone.
- Katie is 8 years old! She's growing up fast, along with her brother, who is developing a really fun personality. He's a little genius like his sister and has developed a love for books as well. We hope he'll be reading early like Katie and since he won't start school until he's six, because of his birthday, we're going to try to find a school to get him a head start. Especially since we don't qualify for Head Start here, because our income is too high. Don't get me started on that...though I did learn that Mexico does not have a welfare system, which means they HAVE to work to live. Since everyone works that leads to fewer available jobs, hence the illegal immigration problem...but don't get me started on that either. We could probably learn a little bit from Mexico regarding the welfare system. Those who know me well, know my opinion of those who abuse the system.
Anyway, we're heading off to San Antonio next week for a free visit to Sea World. We'll try to catch the zoo while we're there too. Stay tuned for updates...and check back for new pictures.
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Site Upgrade
Posted by watts on Sunday, April 20, 2008 (01:24:04) (44 reads)
I performed an interim upgrade on the software running the site...and I screwed up the color scheme. Forgive the really odd colored fonts. I can't figure out how to fix it right now but I'm moving to an entirely new content management system anyway so I don't care that much. Once I figure out how to migrate the posts and the pictures, I'll implement the new system.
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Deploying to Iraq, again.
Posted by watts on Sunday, April 06, 2008 (23:21:46) (41 reads)
For those not already aware, I'll be deploying back to Iraq with my Cavalry Squadron as part of the 56th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. I should be back in country toward the end of the year but will begin preparations and training in the next month or two.
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My Texas Cavalry Medal is here
Posted by watts on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 (02:47:06) (107 reads)
I first wrote about the medal here. The referenced article in that article has since been updated by me to show the new Texas Cavalry Medal, which I was able to pick up and hand out to a few other troopers when I saw them this past drill weekend.
Click on the thumbnail to see the new design.
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Database Error
Posted by watts on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 (04:28:23) (100 reads)
I'm aware that some people are having issues logging into the site. You'll get a database error if you try. I'm trying to figure out why this is happening and will update this post once I get it fixed.
Update - It should be fixed now.
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