The World According To Chris Brewer

The following is the reason I am glad I am not deployed with a unit and came here individually.

Apparently the opinion exists (I’m sure it’s among a group of people rather than one person) that I am full of myself and I am somewhat conceited. I was made aware of that this morning.

What may I have done to give people this opinion of me? Let’s see.

FACTS: I am confident in my abilities as a broadcaster. I have more experience than everyone else here who is my same pay grade. I’m not afraid to let this fact be made known when someone in a position of authority comes over to me and treats me like I’ve never done my job before.

Let’s face it. Someone who only does their job when they deploy is not going to have as much experience as an active duty member who does his/her job every day.

Continue reading ‘Day 104: Respect Is Mutual’

Here is a compilation of articles across the sports world written yesterday and today by prominent sports columnists, decrying the officials’ handing Pittsburgh the Lombardi Trophy.

Note that some of these writers wouldn’t even care less for the Seahawks if they weren’t in the Super Bowl.

Read these and weep.

Jason Whitlock of the Kansas City Star
The Chicago Sports Review
Central Florida: The Ledger
Michael Smith of ESPN.com
Skip Bayless of ESPN.com

So it’s not just me pointing out the very legitimate fact that the officials sucked crap out of a straw.

The final score of the Super Bowl: Refs 21, Hawks 10. And I will be pissed about it for a very long time.

[tags]Super Bowl, Seahawks, Steelers, officials, referees, stupid[/tags]

Jesus was up in heaven watching the Seahawks NFC Championship victory over Carolina a couple of weeks ago, and he loved every minute of it. A friend who’s up there now emailed me this image. He says it was taken when Seneca Wallace had an amazing over-the-shoulder catch of a Matt Hasselbeck pass. So now you see this as your visual evidence, that Jesus loves the Seattle Seahawks. So if Jesus is a Seahawks fan, I guess you are sinning if you root against them.

Did you notice something? I seem to have made it unharmed to triple digits. That’s right everyone, I have reached the century mark in days served over here in Iraq. Today is Day 100, and it is also Super Bowl Sunday. What a coincidence. Just because of that fact, the Seahawks will win the Super Bowl 28-21. Watch it happen.

Not much going on in the world of Chris Brewer. Not much at all. I’m actually getting ready to go back to the hooch pretty soon and sleep until about 10:30 or maybe even 11, then mosey down to the palace and grab some food. Then I’ll head back into my room and watch the Big Game with my roommate. He is also a Seahawks fan, so we will be enjoying the thrill of victory while Steler faithfuls groan and mutter in despair at another quarterback with the number 8 beating them (Aikman for the Cowboys in ‘96).

I think the Seahawks are gonna bolt out to an early 14-0 lead, only to see the Steelers come back and go up 21-14 in the third quarter, putting some Hawks fans on edge. Then Roethlisberger will get shaky hands and throw two critical interceptions in the fourth, and the Seahawks will capitalize off of both to win the freakin’ Super Bowl 28-21 and bring the Lombardi Trophy back to Seattle. Watch it happen.

How do you plan on spending your Super Sunday? Watching the game? Doing something else? Tell me about it. Or since most of you will read this on Monday, tell me how you spent your Super Sunday.

God bless you, and God bless the Seahawks.

A curse upon the Steelers!!!

[tags]Jesus, Steelers, Seahawks, Super Bowl, Iraq

My mission for tomorrow night has been cancelled!!! Praise God. I was looking forward to it, but the mere fact that it would have been traveling on a Sunday night and I probably would have been too tired to watch the Super Bowl because of that, made me dread the mission. But now I get to enjoy it and watch it at the Palace with a bunch of friends, coworkers, and fellow Seahawks fans, all while eating hot wings, pizza, etc.

So yesterday was my first normal day ever since I contracted what I thought to be a stomach virus. After going to sick call a few days ago and going through a round of questioning as to what my symptoms were, they determined that I had food poisoning. Great. They asked me where I eat my meals, and I told them I eat at the main DFAC (dining facility) and also at the Al-Rasheed. Then they went on to tell me, “Yeah we get a few food poisoning cases from the Rasheed here and there.”

Continue reading ‘Day 99: No Mission, And No Longer Sick!!!’

Some people may not like what I have to say. Oh well. This open letter is to all young reservists who complain about having to be deployed for a year.

Dear Young Reservist,

If you’re in any branch of the service and you’re whining about having to come to Iraq for a year, please shut your mouth.

I respect your military service, but I don’t like how you can live at home and enjoy a normal civilian life, then you come to drill for a couple weekends every now and then, and when you are finally called up to active duty for a year you complain about it.

I signed on the dotted line just like you did, but my commitment is even higher, as I signed four years of my life to serve active duty. The military has moved me around at their leisure to different bases such as Lajes and Langley, and now I am serving for six months in Iraq.

You get promoted faster than I ever will, and that is a travesty. Why, you ask? Because I have done more service in my three years of active service time than you ever will in ten. If anything, it should take even longer to promote you all than active duty troops. There is no reason that someone with one and a half years of reserve time should make E-4 while it took an active duty member like me three years to reach the same rank.

I guess what I am trying to say is that you really have no room to complain when you are called to serve your country for a year. You signed on the dotted line, so deal with it. Suck it up, do your job and come back home safe, so you can at least enjoy your civilian life again.

Respectfully,
An Active Duty Member