Welcome Home Cory....thank you for your service ~
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Welcome Home Cory....thank you for your service ~
Amen, brother! And welcome home.
WELCOME HOME, MY BRUTHA!
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Cory! Welcome back. You are going from picture 1 to picture 2. Be happy. Be VERY happy.
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Welcome back my SOC Bro.. and thank you for serving and protecting this country and my family!
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Lane, I heard that Cory's flight had no room in 'Coach' so they made other arrangements to accommodate our Navy Hero, Master Chief Drake!!
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Wild Bill - it looks like those Shindig dancers stole your 'moves'!!
Jim, before or after the Oban.....OK, After!
BwaaaaaHaaaaaa
~WB
BwaaaaaHaaaaaa
~WB
Welcome back Cory, after you take care of that screen door banging in the Northeaster, give us at SOC a debriefing.
i always go first class using my miles, american and united will put uniformed personnel in first class if available.nice gesture.
Cory, my speedstah brutha - welcome home to the land of the free and the speestahs (but not the free speedstahs - LOL)!
angela
angela
Welcome back Corey....Just in time for the MAX COOL DOWN, known as winter.......Enjoy the wet and cold......I know you had very little of it over there......I missed you and Bert at the events.....Now maybe things cen get a little closer to normal....
Bert sez..... "I have a husband again! We've checked into the hotel in Norfolk. Do Not Disturb is hung on the door ... He's exhausted and needs to sleep."
WELCOME HOME
Who's this Cory guy everyone's talking about?
;)
Good to have you home dude.
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Good to have you home dude.
So I texted Teresa around 5pm on whether Cory had arrived and in a few seconds (honest) my cell rings and it's the Hoopty from Djibouti hisself!
He sounded tired, so I assume it was a long-ish flight (hey....it was on a Ryan Aire Charter flight - anything on Ryanaire is an adventure), but at least he's home safe with his wife. They have a lot of catching up to do, plus, he's going to be going through debriefing and updating their replacements for the next month or so and then things will, most likely, settle down.
Sounded good, and very glad to be back.
Look for some Hoopty and Mrs. Hoopty posts in the near future.
Cory (and Lane at work, too, for that matter) has not been able to access this site for a few months, hence, no posts from the "Great and Lesser Djiboutis", but he could access the Speedsteshop and posted there from Spain (where both cell phones and land lines were ineffective and email was blocked, too) that his flight was delayed due to mechanical problems and could we notify Teresa?? A few of us did, me included, and so I'm glad the Speedstershop was able to be a communications conduit for a GI on his way home! (who woulda thunk??)
Anyway, the newlyweds are back together again - Gee.....this is getting to sound like a Nicholas Sparks novel, isn't it?
Pretty cool Holidays coming up, I'm sure!
gn
He sounded tired, so I assume it was a long-ish flight (hey....it was on a Ryan Aire Charter flight - anything on Ryanaire is an adventure), but at least he's home safe with his wife. They have a lot of catching up to do, plus, he's going to be going through debriefing and updating their replacements for the next month or so and then things will, most likely, settle down.
Sounded good, and very glad to be back.
Look for some Hoopty and Mrs. Hoopty posts in the near future.
Cory (and Lane at work, too, for that matter) has not been able to access this site for a few months, hence, no posts from the "Great and Lesser Djiboutis", but he could access the Speedsteshop and posted there from Spain (where both cell phones and land lines were ineffective and email was blocked, too) that his flight was delayed due to mechanical problems and could we notify Teresa?? A few of us did, me included, and so I'm glad the Speedstershop was able to be a communications conduit for a GI on his way home! (who woulda thunk??)
Anyway, the newlyweds are back together again - Gee.....this is getting to sound like a Nicholas Sparks novel, isn't it?
Pretty cool Holidays coming up, I'm sure!
gn
Welcome home, Cory.
Thanks for your service to all of us.
Very glad you came through in one piece (always a good thing!).
Thanks for your service to all of us.
Very glad you came through in one piece (always a good thing!).
Cory---Hooray---welcome home, my friend and God bless you fotr your service. We have missed seeing you at Sopeedster events and look forward to eyou getting the Hoopty fired back up and getting back into the swing of things.
Hope to see you soon.
Hope to see you soon.
Thanks Chief!
Cory? Theresa? Anybody home? Helloooooooo! Oh never mind,
WELCOME HOME CORY! Give a call when you come up for air, hehehehehehehe
WELCOME HOME CORY! Give a call when you come up for air, hehehehehehehe
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Welcome home pal. Looking forward to seeing the two of you....Carlisle, Dragon or ???
Hooah Cory! Welcome back to USA! Back to Wash DC and true harms way!
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Cory, God bless you, and all the other service men and women that keep us safe. Its good to know your home safe. Hope to see you at the next SOC function.
Welcome home, compadre, very happy to hear your are feet dry USA. When back at the homestead, give a shout and we'll get together -- meet, eat, toast to all things Speedster, like that.
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Remember these...Good times!!
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Cory, welcome home dude...I am currently in a vigil at my mother's, waiting for her to pass, I will send some sarcastic remarks in the future...and pic's...
Good Lord, it's been three frigg'n days, time for air buddy, "you're not as young as you once was".......Cory, report for SOC duty ~
But Alan, he's "not as good as he once was, but he's as good once, as he ever was!"
Welcome back, man! Sorry for busting your chops, well, no, I'm not!
Welcome back, man! Sorry for busting your chops, well, no, I'm not!
Bwaaahahaha
And so we have posted up our warm welcome-homes, paid homage, and had a little fun at his expense (always easy), and so now sit in vigil, waiting to hear a first-hand reply. Like "Where is Waldo?" Where is Cory??
(gulp!)
We've come up for air!!
Cory got into Norfolk on Saturday (the 14th), and had to spend a few days there. We hit the road for HOME on Thursday, and celebrated our one year anniversary yesterday.
We're just getting our feet underneath ourselves now ... It's been a whirl-wind!
I'm sure Cory will post something soon!
For now, he says "Awww! Thanks for all the messages and posts!"
We've come up for air!!
Cory got into Norfolk on Saturday (the 14th), and had to spend a few days there. We hit the road for HOME on Thursday, and celebrated our one year anniversary yesterday.
We're just getting our feet underneath ourselves now ... It's been a whirl-wind!
I'm sure Cory will post something soon!
For now, he says "Awww! Thanks for all the messages and posts!"
Hey T, I am sure you all are catching up. I guess I'll give him a call soon, is old phone number reactivated?
Theresa's # works - it's like magic. I called it and CORY answered! I suspect that you still can't slide a piece of paper between the two of them at this point - LOL!
angela
angela
Glad to hear the Drake-ster is back in the saddle...
smokem if you got em...
Welcome home dude...I'm only slightly disappointed that you didn't get to shoot somebody. but hey your still young, perhaps you'll have another chance....
smokem if you got em...
Welcome home dude...I'm only slightly disappointed that you didn't get to shoot somebody. but hey your still young, perhaps you'll have another chance....
.......I'm slightly disappointed that Cory has not said a peep...is he really here or is it Memorex?
Heeeeey, Everybody!
I haven't been intentionally neglecting you guys -- it just worked out that way. Teresa came to Norfolk to meet me last week, and we wound up there a few days longer than I thought we should have (but not longer than Teresa thought we would be; she's smarter than me).
Good news is that might have been my last deployment. There's scuttlebutt that another is possible if I want it, but it looks like I'm a protected species for the next year at least -- and to go anywhere again, especially as an E-8, I'd have to volunteer for it. I won't rule it out, but I'm not gunning for deployment number eight, either.
Thanks for keeping in touch with Teresa and I over the last year, guys. It's been terrific. For those who used to have my phone number, it hasn't changed. it's the same old 443 number. We're looking into an e-mail address now for gmail and Mac.com; it'll probably wind up being the lindisfarne793 address with a new suffix. Not 100 percent sure what that'll be yet.
For now, we're happy to be together again.
Pictures when we have time.
I haven't been intentionally neglecting you guys -- it just worked out that way. Teresa came to Norfolk to meet me last week, and we wound up there a few days longer than I thought we should have (but not longer than Teresa thought we would be; she's smarter than me).
Good news is that might have been my last deployment. There's scuttlebutt that another is possible if I want it, but it looks like I'm a protected species for the next year at least -- and to go anywhere again, especially as an E-8, I'd have to volunteer for it. I won't rule it out, but I'm not gunning for deployment number eight, either.
Thanks for keeping in touch with Teresa and I over the last year, guys. It's been terrific. For those who used to have my phone number, it hasn't changed. it's the same old 443 number. We're looking into an e-mail address now for gmail and Mac.com; it'll probably wind up being the lindisfarne793 address with a new suffix. Not 100 percent sure what that'll be yet.
For now, we're happy to be together again.
Pictures when we have time.