so its been a good minute since ive posted

it think the last one was like around thanksgiving... and since then alot has happened. where to start. well the week after thanksgiving, i think it was just a regular work week, nothing too special. actually... i had ERT that week, and i was promoted to fire team leader... which is good, and that means i get to be the first into a burning building, and last out... woohoo danger. um... then the next week i sent out my families christmas gifts... i hope they arrive on time. and then the remainder of the week was pretty basic. made plans for this weekend, and then thursday, like about 230 pm... i got a call from my LCPO (Leading Chief Petty Officer) and he was asking me if i wanted to take part in this "run" this weekend. These "runs" are usually for like Admirals and Captains of the base and stuff.... well this one was a little bit more prestigious. Lets just say i spent majority of my weekend, this weekend, driving around Bahrain in....drumroll... the Secretary of Defense's motorcade. yea... i was a driver for his staff actually. and the coolest part was just seeing him... the closest i thought i would have gotten was no more than maybe ten feet from him. and in his motorcade i was about three cars back.... mind you i had half of his staff in my van.... there were four 05s... (big wigs), the guy who was running this entire weekends operations was riding with me... and as our base liasion officer in charge, he was an 05 as well. so i spent some pretty predigious mounts of time rubbing elbows with some high class DC people. AND... to top it all off.... right as the SecDef was boarding his plane... they pulled out all the drivers of the weekend, and we all got a picture with him. i was standing right next to the United States Secretary of Defense. AND i got to shake his hand, AND i got a command coin from him (this is basically priceless, its the third highest coin you can probably get). Man was it awesome. it was tough hours, up by 6 (5 for the final day which was today) and back home by about 8. long days, but man was the payoff worth it. i got to hang out with the head secret agent guy for the first night, then the second in charge of the agents was with us the whole time. i had my dinner one night bought by the O5 riding with me the whole weekend. and then there was an O1 from the army and basically shot the poopoo with us the entire weekend. he was ordering us to call him by his first name... and he was an officer on base.... boy was it an exciting weekend. and another thing... the SecDef's plane.... EFFING HUGE... SERIOUSLY. the puppy was some site to see. we got all sorts of photos of all the places we went and ill be posting them on my facebook once i get my hands on them.

-sigh- it was awesome. 

but i gotta run... need some fuel for the belly.

i love you guys, and ill post again before the holidays. everyone be safe on the roads, and buckle up (they told us that everytime we "mounted up"... haha agent talk... its cool) 

take care guys.... i love you.