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deployment: Iraq, The Story Unfolds; " One Month to GO!" - 11/19/09 12:43 AM
Well . . . in one month (ish) I should be back at home spending time with my wife and starting my Real Estate career. I still cannot give exact dates for security reasons but the song "I'll be Home for Christmas" is a certainty. I have already sent most of my un-needed items home and my bags are practically packed up and ready to go.
Kinda wierd how a year ago this week I took and passed my Real Estate Exam. I was originally supposed to report to my unit for deployment on the first of December last year so … (7 comments)
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deployment: Iraq - The Story Unfolds; "The Weather Finally Changes" - 11/03/09 02:23 AM
This is the 15th blog in my series "Iraq-The Story Unfolds". Wow, I didn't realize I had posted so many. For those that are not following you can go back through my blogs and see most of the different "untold" stories that I have for my deployment to Iraq. This is a much different side that you won't see on TV. Anyway this post is to talk about the weather again, seems to come up in alot of posts.
So I came back a little more than a month ago. When I got here at the beginning of October the temperatures … (4 comments)
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deployment: Iraq, The Story Unfolds -- "Vacation from Iraq, Swine Flu Came to Visit" - 10/20/09 08:05 AM
First off for those of you who have been following my posts I want to apologize for such a long wait time from the last one. Things have been very hectic in the past two months. Anyway I had left the last post talking about my up-coming leave. As you can guess from the title of this blog, it was not quite what I expected.
So the days from my last post until I left got really crazy. I was placed in the administration office to help out the personnel section to cover down on other Soldiers that were … (10 comments)
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deployment: "Iraq, The Story Unfolds" -- Counting Down the Days - 07/30/09 06:43 AM
Which number do you like better; 39 or 130? Well I am definatley looking forward to 39 which is how long until I get to go on leave. I get a full 15 days to spend at home, plus whatever time it takes for travel. Looking at about 20 days total. However I would definatly say that 130 would be my magic number and that is the "Estimated" amount of days I have until I get to go home. Sorry I cannot say, and sadly I dont really even know when that magic day is. However, we have been told that … (11 comments)
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deployment: Iraq -- The Story Unfolds; "Wait . . I missed the 4th of July" - 07/09/09 02:47 AM
My last post I had mentioned that we had finally past our half way mark. With that it seems like the time has suddenly started to fly by. I beieve that I had told you all that my biggest thing to look forward to was my Sundays, the one day that I get most of the day off. Well they seem to be coming and going faster than ever now. I believe this is because of two things, we have passed the half way mark so we are starting to talk about our re-deployment and everything that goes with it, … (10 comments)
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deployment: "Iraq, the Story Unfolds" -- My Deployment is Half Over! - 06/24/09 01:35 AM
Well, we have finally reached the half way point. My unit was mobilized at the end of December, got to Iraq in the beginning of Feburary and we are now half way done! I guess looking back the time is kinda flying by. While each day seems to take forever I believe the past six months has flown by. I think it has helped that most of us find something in the near future to look forward to.
For most it is that beloved Sunday that we get most of the day off. Alot of units do not get that … (23 comments)
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deployment: "Iraq, The Story Unfolds" -- How we Live - 06/02/09 07:26 AM
Today I am going to talk about the living and working conditions for my unit here in Iraq. Before I start this blog I first need to say not to assume that this is the way that everyone lives or works, every unit is different . . and I mean that literally, every unit lives differently, has different "anemities", different schedules, different jobs, so this is just for one simple unit in Iraq.
The Camps, or FOB's -- We started our tour working in a huge building in Camp Victory . .one of the biggest, nicest bases in Iraq. Many would say it is … (21 comments)
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deployment: "Iraq, the Story Unfolds" - I Made it to Iraq - 05/29/09 11:01 AM
Okay so this part of the story will probably be more boring than the rest. Last time I left of with me in Kuwait. As I stated before I stayed there for approx. two weeks. Things did not run as smooth for me as most becuase my unit was already in Iraq. I was running about two weeks behind them since I had to go get that specialized training in Fort Huachuca. Since I was running behind that meant that I did not have guarenteed transportation, lodging, and other amenities that whole units get when coming through. Basically when you have … (14 comments)
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deployment: "Iraq, The Story Unfolds" -- Deployment Starts - 05/26/09 08:55 AM
So the deployment starts, first I am asked by my unit to go to a course at Fort Huachuca Arizona to become an Electronic Wafare Officer. Cant say too much about this as it is a classifed job. The simple answer is that I spent a few weeks in sunny Sierra Vista, Arizona learning how to protect our convoys and troops from IED's. You know, those bad things you hear about on TV that blows up and has killed most of our troops in Iraq. For me it was a very interesting course, I actually enjoyed it. Anyway few weeks went … (16 comments)
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