Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Swimtastical

I am by no means the expert in Special Forces, but I have been in some ODA (Operational Detachment Alpha) "Team Houses". Coming from the general purpose force, these pads are like the Shangri' la of military livin', they are where all the cool people want to be. Team Houses usually have satellite phone/Internet hook-ups, and all the toys the rest of the force can never get.

Today we went and visited the CSSM Beach Mission in LBI (Long Beach Island). After the morning program at the beach, we went back to the "Team House" for lunch. It was an awesome time and good to catch up with some old friends. It was definitely where all the cool people where, there was however a conspicuous lack of gadgetry. To help fix this I thought it would be fun to come up with some "Godly gadgets" to bring the mission's team house into the next century.

In no particular order I give you:

The Prayerator: This handy piece of gear will take random phrases from the Bible and combine them with events from throughout the day and produce a world class prayer fit for any occasion (still in development).

The iRosary: For the Catholic mission trip, these cross shaped mp3 players, are the must have gear for the discerning music aficionado.

What, you don't need gadgetry for the team house to be cool? How can that be, I mean the SOF guys have it. Oh well, its probably for the best, I just wanted to bring up the iRosary, I made up the Prayerator (I think it could sell well though, so if there are any computer programmers/ engineers out there that want to team up, I'm just saying.)

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