What Have I Been Up To?

My sincerest apologies for the scant few updates to the blog. By the way, My Gun Diary is nearing 100,000 views! Since my assignment as Unit Public Affairs Representative, I have turned my photographic attention to my Army unit, 1st Battalion 38th Field Artillery MLRS.

You'll start seeing updates from my army photos regularly, something I should have been doing all along. This way I can continue to keep the blog updated and you, the reader, can enjoy following along with my exploits.

I highly recommend "Liking" my units Facebook page so you can see all the updates instantly. It's a great unit and we do lots of cool stuff. Live Rocket Launcher training, unit team building, awards, ceremonies, all that Army stuff. I'm also campaigning to get more "Likes" than our Brigade's Facebook page. So please go to our page and "LIKE" it! Thanks https://www.facebook.com/SteelBehindTheRock

Here are some photos from the recent Air Assault School held here in Korea.

Re-up You're Crazy!

My reenlistment ceremony was held yesterday, just hours before my Battery rolled out to the field and just one day before I'm to fly back to the States for a one month school (Advanced Leaders Course). I had intended to finish out my current contract and ETS from Korea, however, things being what they are, I had to reenlist in order to fulfill my AIP obligation (one year extension in Korea). With my leave days taken into consideration, I really only added 9-10 months to my current contract. Now I just have to keep my fingers crossed and hope I get reassigned back to Fort Lewis.

New Video - My Life at Camp Casey - Part 3

I hope you're enjoying my Life at Camp Casey series. Mostly produced with friends and family back home in mind, it's a nice glimpse into life here on the Korean Peninsula.

Part 3 opens with the infamous monsoon rains of Korean summer and continues through a life fire field exercise with the MLRS rocket launchers. Also included is footage of my trips into Seoul and my attendance at Warrior Leaders Course at Camp Jackson where I won the Leadership Award for my class.

Hope you enjoy the video and stay tuned for more.

My Battery Goes on a Run, I Grab My Camera

My Battery went on a motivational run leading into the 3 day Choesuk holiday weekend. I instinctively reached for my camera and threw a short video together for posterity. It's an outstanding Battery with superb leadership, I'm proud to be a part of it!

Enjoy the video.

SPC (Major) Payne Shares Deployment Photos Featuring Our Master Girls with Guns Photo Curator, SPC. Harrington!

I recently pulled a 24 hour duty shift with a SPC. Payne, who as it turns out, is also an avid gun enthusiast, which was a good thing because it gave us plenty in common to talk about all night, which is a good thing when 3am rolls around. Ends up he deployed to the middle east with our resident Girls with Guns master photo curator, none other than SPC. Harrington, and was kind enough to share a batch of photos from their deployment to Kazakhstan and Jordan (is greatest country in the world, number one exporter of potassium).

You'll get a good look at the fully automatic AK47's, a few 240B 7.62x51 machine guns and M4 carbines. He also included a few photos of his own gun collection.

Thanks for sharing SPC. Payne! Keep the gun photos coming.

Ah yes, classic Harrington. 

Sexy Harrington

SPC. Payne carries a 240B

Harrington attempting to give someone the bird.

240B range, location unknown.

240B with a belt of ammo.

Humvee mounted 240B.

M4 with red dot scope.

Harrington doing what Harrington does best.

Base camp, the Himalayas in the background.

SPC. Payne with fully automatic AK47.

He wears it well. Kazak army hat.