Looking Ahead

I don't intend to use this blog as a means to complain. I'll apologize up front because I just can't accurately depict life deployed without it sometimes!

I will be in Iraq very soon. For the meantime I am at a transition base somewhere in the middle east and its awful! The place obviously has no concern how many GIs are temporarily stationed here and the facilities simply can't support us! There are long lines at the chow hall, the education center, the internet and phone center, EVERYWHERE! God help you if you can't make the showers in time before the day's water runs out! Then your in real trouble. Finally, you can't work out in the gym unless you have a four hour block put aside to wait for machines and equipment.

I am a 600am-500pm army guy back in the states. I go to work, do my job, and get home to spend time with Maria and the pup. I think it finally hit me yesterday that for the next year all I am going to see is GIs everywhere and always be waiting in some form of line. I am developing a level of patience you couldn't begin to conceive.

I have some great pictures and I know I promised them on my last post, but the computer center will not let me upload them on their computers. I will have to wait until we get in country. Due to the winter months, the weather has been fantastic! High 80s to low 90s. Thats much better than the 130+ it hits in the summer months. It even stormed for a little while the other day. I am sure its not often to see rain out in the desert like that!

Other than that everything is great! haha. When we get to our permanent location and get a routine down things will drastically improve. Until then, all I can do is
W-A-I-T.

p.s. Mom, Dad, and Maria have my mailing address. I don't want someone sending me anthrax so ask them for the address.

p.p.s. One of the MANY rumors floating around has the new Iraqi Parliamant agreement proposing as of June 09 US forces to be restricted to their bases unless the Iraqi Army specifically asks for us. Can anyone validate this? Other rumors have us being moved sometime during deployment to another AO if we turn ours back over the Iraq (THE GOAL OF THIS DEPLOYMENT) or even heading to Afghanistan. But you know what they say, rumors are like.........