Wow! What a break! Six years have gone by since my last post.  That should be enough for everyone on the planet to have completely forgotten who I am and what happened to me, lol.  I did write a post in 2014, but I just realized that it was saved as a draft and never published.  In that draft, I promised I would do a better job of posting on a regular basis.  Boy am I glad I didn't post that thing! lol...

Anyway, today I am recovering from yet another instructor's course.  It was a week long course jam packed full of information and of course shooting.  Can you believe they actually pay me to shoot hundreds of rounds and then go forth and teach others how to do it?! Yeah, me neither!  This is the best job ever! lol...  

So, what's happened over the last six years or so.... Wow, where to start... I promoted, twice.  I'm now a Lieutenant, which many of my troops would consider sacrilege.   As a soldier, I spent the majority of my career complaining about LT's and now I am one.  Sounds like a good argument for Karma!  I was responsible for all of the training that took place at work for about 2 years before I promoted.  That went by so fast! It was a great job, but very stressful.  I enjoyed it immensely. My professional career at this point is at a crossroads.  The options are endless on what I can do, and what I should do is uncertain at this point.  I think I'd like to pursue the investigations arena before I go any farther.  It's a critical step to ensuring that I have the options available to me to go forward doing much bigger and better things for my department.  But in order to do that, I would have to move to Sacramento, or in that area anyway.  I know my wife is most likely against that idea.  I'm not too excited about that idea either, but the opportunities it would provide are extensive.  There's also a chance to take a different route and work on a much more small scale, but make more money.  That would have me living in remote areas and commuting home on weekends, and living out of a camp trailer or moving to a more remote area.  Again, I'm sure the wife doesn't want to move, even if to a more remote area.  The other option is to promote to Captain and stay where I am and end up struggling through the management life hoping to make it to a decent level that would allow for a comfortable retirement in 12 to 15 years but leave me buried in the quagmire of management life which would drive me out of my mind.  What to do....

In the mean time, I will enjoy doing my best to make others better at what they do and leading from the front by my own personal example; because that is what an Infantry leader does!