Dur Ville Zer Machts

[Anything which] is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

from Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, s.259, Walter Kaufmann transl.

Hello to everyone on this Easter Sunday 2010!

I hope all is well at home, wherever home may be for you. Things here are going very well. The weeks have seemed to go by very quickly. Every time Monday comes it seems like the weekend is there the next day.

My class is in the hangar now. We haven't touched any Apaches yet, but we will soon hopefully. We have a bunch of stuff that we have to go through in the classroom before we can get on the helicopter and start taking stuff apart. I can't wait to crack open my toolbox and just go nuts though.

The Army has been full of new experiences and Felker Army Airfield is no different. I've been to the hangar at Gowen before, but not to work obviously. There are all kinds of safety protocols we have to follow and just being around that many extremely expensive and rockin-awesome aircraft is kind of a rush. The only lame thing is that none of them fly. Our birds (the 15X birds, they're old) are flyable, but they don't get flown because we need them to work on. All of the new D model birds aren't even complete helicopters.

We do see some helicopters in the air though. Lately there have been a couple of Navy Blackhawks (whatever they call them) and a CH-53 flying around out there. The 53 is a pretty amazing sight. It is amazing to see something that big connected to a glorified ceiling fan actually getting off the ground.

Aviation is going to be an interesting field I think. I've always thought it would be cool to be a pilot, but to have more of an understanding of how the helicopter works electrically and knowing the inner workings of the weapons systems is going to be interesting too.

That's all from me for now, continue on the paths you have chosen and should they lead you to a great place, make sure you weren't followed by some fool who is going to ruin it for you.