Pictures

Camels in Kuwait
In the Sea-Tac airport
These are on Camp Liberty. Look like Haiti, don't they?

Our tent at Liberty.

Hey finally huh? I got internet in my room now and it's much better. I am very tired so this will be short. It's 0506 and I've been up for 18 hours because we're changing to reverse cycle. It will probably be about 3.5 more before I can crash.
Today we were at the range so my weapon is now zeroed and the bullets will go to the little red dot. Tomorrow? More tactics training.

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Mortar repellant? Sporty? You people have issues and should contact a psychiatrist immediately. Good to hear from you though. Puff, I can't wait to come down there and see you and that other nutcase brother of mine. I'll have to give you both a good pounding just for old times' sake =)
Today was struggling to stay awake through several classes and sweating my you-know-what off practicing mounting/dismounting the Blackhawk. Oh, I got to sit in the gunner's seat of an Apache! If I stay in the Army, I'm going to put in for warrant officer and fly choppers. That's got to be the coolest job in the Army.
Tomorrow we have two more practice missions. One during the day and one at night. This time we'll be using the Blackhawks for the first time so it should be a little less boring than usual.

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Well, it's definitely gotten more interesting. The last few days, we've been going out on practice missions here on the fob, including one at night. I want to try to take some pictures through the night vision goggles. We also had some mortars hit on the fob yesterday and the day before. I think there were a couple injuries but nothing serious. I'm perfectly all right. I tried to post a couple days ago but it the internet burped and I lost it and I didn't have enough time to rewrite it. We've been very busy with all the training and I haven't been able to write like I want to. I'm going to look into getting internet in my room. I gotta get up early tomorrow so I'm going. Toodles.

Blah

Hi. Nothing new here. It's hot, we're training. Eat, sleep and do it all over again. When something cool or significant happens I'll tell you about it, but for now I'm drawing a blank.

same sh**.......

......different day. You guys haven't missed much the last couple days. Just more classes and training. We're going to be training for the next two weeks. Plans have changed and we'll be doing something new and completely different from what I've been telling you. It's much cooler and we won't be gone 10 days at a time like the former plan but I can't tell you what it is. It's not any more dangerous, just new and when the Army does something new, they do all sorts of redudant training to get ready. It sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun but we'll see once we get started. There will be a fair amount of night training and lots of weapons training (yay!). I love the weapons. I think they're the coolest part of being in the Army (along with the vehicles).

Taji

I'm finally here and I'm settling into my room which I share with the other two guys who came with me. We're all in different sections so we won't be always around each other. Not necessarily a bad thing. They're ok, it's just nice to change company now and then.
Do you remember me saying that our flight was to leave at 0130? Well it didn't leave til 0250. We got here at 0315 and to bed at 0400. We slept til 0830 and then had a full day of inprocessing and briefings we've already gotten at least two dozen times. I swear, the army is all about brainwashing. Today there was a battalion bbq which took up most of the day and then they let us off. I have to go back to the room soon and start cleaning my weapon for tomorrow though. So far it's great here. I'll let you know if that changes at all. Buh-bye.

About Time

Good news, amazing, astounding news. We have a flight and it leaves at 0130. The no-so-good news. We leave the tent at 2200. Sound like typical army procedure yet? I'm going to keep this short so I can get a couple hours of sleep before we leave. Didn't do much today. Bought some cheap bootleg movies and games to occupy my time in case I don't have internet access at some point. I'll let you know what it'll be like there as soon as possible. Ta-ta for now.