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Heading to the Balkans!
🕑 Added 2023-12-15 16:59:00 +0000 UTCJust a quick news update that will help explain why I've been pretty busy here lately, and updates have been a little bit sporadic: I am being deployed to Kosovo!
I can talk about it now because it has been announced, families and employers know about it, and so on. I've had to sit on this news for a bit, which I am sure is understandable.
My deployment is not immediately; I actually leave for Fort Cavasos in Texas for about a 2-month train-up, then we go to Pristina sometime in October. I will rotate back to the USA in October of 2025, so my total time on active duty will be about 1 year.
This isn't a "combat" deployment; this is a NATO peacekeeping mission. In 1999, there was a flare-up of violence between Serbia and Kosovo, and since then NATO and EU Command has maintained a peacekeeping mission there while the two countries sort out their differences politically.
So what does this mean comic-wise?
Some plans have to be put on hold or at least slowed down-- that's why there haven't been many Empires updates recently. I am going to have to hurry to get Book #4, "Extended", done in the next couple of weeks (if possible), my Vox Noctem project may have to limp along until summer, and I have to squeeze everything in between a bunch of other schools and train-ups I need to attend over the course of the next few months. For example, most of January and February are going to be at a leadership academy.
On the other hand, this means a whole new adventure for BOHICA Blues!
I am going to take a vacation from BOHICA Blues for a few days and kick off a new adventure on Monday, January 1st, with Juni and Emma being deployed to Kosovo, so we can follow them as they mirror some of the experiences I have while over there. They'll meet another, more experienced Intel sergeant that we met a long, looonng time ago in one of Joe Rock's adventures.
I'm looking forward to it, and I hope you are too.
Once I have an idea what my schedule is going to look like, I will be able to make more plans-- but until I know more, I need to concentrate on basics and not over-extend myself. I will continue to post here of course, with updates, comics, and projects, but there may be a day here or there where I don't post or I am late, or I am not on my usual Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule. I do have doodles loaded until mid-April, so that won't be interrupted.
Anyhow, that's the big news, so until later... keep things random!
Comments
CF Arik Grant
Thank you! Should be an adventure, one way or another.
John Bandow
Best of luck with all of this, Boss. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers until you return stateside in 2025.
