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| Its only been a week but it has been a busy one. I went on a few convoys, built a detention cell, started an Iraqi guard force, and got very little sleep. Temperatures are steadily climbing to 100 degrees. I hope to stay with the MiTT until I go home but that probably won't happen, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I can't guarantee it but I should be writing again next Saturday. Happy Easter to all. | | |
| Like I said before, I had no idea where I would end up next, so here I am on Camp Blue Diamomd, on the outskirts of Ramadi. I am helping to train the Iraqi Army so they can eventually take over our jobs for us and get our troops home. Blue Diamond is on the Euphrates River, there is a lot of vegetation which is a nice change. Uday had one of his palace's here, but now the palace is named after the missle that blew it up (JDAM). Things are going well for me, I like this base a lot better that Camp Fallujah because everything is close by, or maybe its because my chain of command isn't here to stress me out. One downfall that I will have is that I won't be getting any mail for at least a month. It is pretty sad that I think 65 degrees is pretty cold to me. Until next time, take care for now. | | |
| Well after seeing a lot of this country I feel that I have the right to call it a dump. Trash is everywhere. Enough ranting though. Well I'm back on Camp Fallujah, but for the last month I was living in a building in downtown Fallujah. The living conditions at first shocked me on how gross it would be to live there but after a few days I became use to it. We had city water which was really dirty, I'm still not sure if taking a shower cleaned me or made me dirtier. I helped run a Entry Control Point along with a few Iraqi Police. The Police are pretty cool guys, they bring us food a lot. I was pretty upset when I had to go back to base, life was much less stressful there. I have no idea where I will be next but stay tuned. | | |
| Well, after a few long days I made it to Kuwait. The first night was the worst, standing outside all night freezing to death. The next day we took a 9+ hour flight to Ireland. We were only there an hour while the plane refueled, but I did get a few euro coins. After that short break we got back the plane for a 7 hour flight to Kuwait. I pretty much skipped the whole day of Friday, Feb. 3 altogether. Once in Kuwait we took a bus ride to our camp where I am presently at. We unloaded our gear from the trucks in wind gusts and a hard rain that I totally did not expect. My bags were drenched but luckily not the insides, and I'm still drying some of my clothes. The Kuwait that I have seen is definitely a dessert, nothing but sand and I mean only sand. I Still don't know how or when we are going to Iraq but hopefully its soon, I really want to get settled if that is even possible. Well off to chow now, they have been feeding us a lot of good food so far, we'll see if that trend continues. Stay tunned for another Marsh Iraq Adventure. | | |
| Currently I'm packing up everything in my room, it looks like a bomb
went off in here. My Jeep looks as good as it ever has, (I got it
waxed, armor
alled, and steam cleaned yesterday) only to pack it with all of my
junk, making the back ride pretty low. I
leave for Iraq in a few days, right now the only thing that I'm a
little nervous about is the fear of the unknown being its my first time
being deployed. I know my quality of life is going to go way down
which I'm not looking forward too, but what can I do about that.
I should still be able to email and make phone calls over there to stay
in contact with the real world, but this is a way where everybody can
read up on what going on with me since I won't be able to talk to my
friends and family as often. I can't wait untill I get back and
see everybody again.
R/S,
Matt
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