Last Time

Next weekend is going to be a very sweet unexpected weekend, and a very sad and painful weekend.  I am coming home for a quick weekend, this is not expected and I am not going to be very social, so apologies in advance.  The Marine Corps is giving us a 72.  For those of you how don't know exactly what that means they are giving us 72 hours of liberty, some may think oh a three day weekend how nice, but the Marine Corps is a little more literal than its civilian counterpart a 72 is literally 72 hours from noon on Friday to noon on Monday. A three day weekend it is not but a weekend is better than nothing so I am flying home late Friday and getting back to Camp Pendleton early Monday.  After that it is off to Afghanistan and off to work.