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Egyptian adventures

Eric Bernau — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:08:00 GMT

By: Eric Bernau
I have uploaded some videos for your viewing pleasure... First is a video that CDT Dave Horn captured underwater while diving in Sharm el-Sheikh. The marine life and corral were unbelieveable: Second is a video CDT Dave Horn captured of an octopus during our night dive: Third is a video of CDT Horn riding a camel around the pyramids of Giza in Cairo: If you’re interested in learning more about West Point, visit...read more

All Good Things Must Come to An End...

Eric Bernau — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:15:00 GMT

By: Eric Bernau
Well I'm back in the U.S. of A. It was a long day of traveling yesterday and I am a little jet lagged (woke up wide awake a 05:00 this morning...) but looking back fondly on the trip as I organize all my pictures from the trip. Now that I have internet, here are some pictures from the trip: Me on the summit of Mt. Sinai watching the sunrise Diving in Dahab with Saudi Arabia in the background Riding camels in front of the pyramids In front of the Sphinx It was an amazing trip, I...read more

Dunraven

Eric Bernau — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:53:00 GMT

By: Eric Bernau
I finally caught up on sleep and got 12 hours of it after I went to bed at 19:00 last night. It was amazing... Today we met up at 08:00 to head over to the Dunraven wreck, which accidentally sunk in 1876 when it crashed into to some it couldn't see. it was an amazing dive, I really do prefer wrecks to reefs, but once again I can't upload any of the pictures we took because the internet is too slow here for that. We did see an eel inside the wreck which was pretty cool....read more

No words can describe...

Eric Bernau — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:19:00 GMT

By: Eric Bernau
I am exhausted...in a good way. Last night after a full day of diving we let our hotel at 22:30 to take a bus to Mt. Sinai 2.5 hours away to climb Mt. Sinai, where Moses received the 10 commandments from God. We got there around 2:30 after a few stops to pick other people up and proceeded up the mountain. A few friends and I were dead set on one thing, riding camels... We kept scanning the pitch black night trying to catch a glimpse of one or two and although we couldn't see...read more

Living the Dream

Eric Bernau — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:41:00 GMT

By: Eric Bernau
Well I tried to take a video of the entire hotel area to give everyone an introduction to where we were staying, but uploading it to facebook would take 4.5 hours. As passionate as I am about this blog, I do not have the motivation to guard my computer for that long in the lobby that has WiFi here, so I will have to wait until hopefully Cairo, or back in America (worst case scenario) to upload the videos I've taken. Yesterday we arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh after an 11 hour flight to...read more

Dive Deep, Fin Hard!

Eric Bernau — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:28:00 GMT

By: Eric Bernau
Long time no see! For those of you who have followed this cadet thread you may remember that I blogged last December during Army-Navy week. I really enjoyed sharing that week with everyone on armystrongstories.com and am very excited to do it once again with everyone as I prepare for my last Spring Break as a cadet. I am a certified SCUBA instructor through the USMA SCUBA team, which I have been a member of since my Plebe (Freshman) year. I am also the CIC (Cadet-in-Charge) of the Spring...read more

Bittersweet Symphony

Eric Bernau — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:21:00 GMT

By: Eric Bernau
So as I'm sure you all saw Army did not win the Army-Navy football game this year which is pretty disappointing because that makes my class the first class in the history of West Point to have never seen us defeat either Navy or Air Force in our four years at the Academy. The team still played really well and were winning going into halftime. It was a really great time and we got some pretty good pictures and videos that I'll post later. Right now we all have to start studying for Finals so I...read more

March-on, Midshipmen, and Martians

Eric Bernau — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:39:00 GMT

By: Eric Bernau
So believe it or not, apparently that old phrase, "practice makes perfect," is actually onto something. I'm not really sure if Navy actually practices their march-on, but from what it looks like year after year, they don't... In order to repeatedly destroy Navy at marching like we're going to do again this year we do a couple days of practice with the entire Corps down at Shea stadium and I selflessly stepped out briefly to film what that practice looked like and you can check it out right...read more

Army-Navy Pep-Rally

Eric Bernau — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:04:00 GMT

By: Eric Bernau
Last Sunday we had our annual Army-Navy briefing/pep rally that kicked off our Navy week this year. We had briefings from the First Captain, Brigade Tactical Officer, Commandant, Football team coach, and others. The Corps was pretty excited about all the activities going on this week around West Point and this weekend in Philadelphia. However, before any of the briefings happened we had to take care of some more serious matters...hot dog eating and pull-up competitions! Each Regiment, 4 in...read more

Weighing in at 165 lbs, standing 5 feet 9 inches tall: Eric Beeerrrrnnaaauuuuuuu!!!

Eric Bernau — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:58:00 GMT

By: Eric Bernau
I guess this is the part where I introduce myself... Confession: I've actually never kept a blog before, this is genuinely my first time publishing my thoughts to the world wide web, so we'll see how it goes. My name is Eric Bernau and I'm currently in my fourth, and final, year at the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY. This year I am serving as the Brigade Public Affairs Officer and having an absolute blast doing it. My job is basically to personally, and find...read more