its been awhile
hey all,
i know its been awhile since my last post. ive been busy, and just really havent had much to say. lets start from training. it was a pain in the ass. up everyday at about 5am, and didnt get to bed till about 11ish. i really cant remember most of it, just most of it was bullshit and pointless. the only good things that we did was learn to shoot all the different guns, and learned how to put an IV into someone. that was for 5 weeks in texas, then we went to Ok for a week. that was even more pointless. pretty much i hated training. but on the plus side, everyone that i met was awesome. ive gotten along with just about everyone im deployed with, so its not all bad. now we get to iraq. it fuckin sucks here. not in the fact that im scared everyday for my life, it more along the lines of being extremely bored when im not out on the road. the base its self is actually really nice. thers a pool on base, plus ive been at the gym everyday since we got here. when were not on the road doin convoys, they have us doin bitch work, which i hate with every being of my body. so we pray everyday that a mission comes down so we can get the hell outta here. on the road life is pretty good. i mean dont get me wrong, everytime we get on the road im scared shitless about being blown up or shot, but id actually rather take that then just sittin on my ass on base. on my first convoy, we stayed the night on a base, in the middle of the night mortors starting hittin the base. i almost pissed myself i was so scared. thank god no one was hurt. im leaving on friday for another convoy up into northern iraq. its the most dangerous up there, and lately its been gettin even worse. im not bitching about it, im just telling the facts. my bday was on the 7th and i almost got blown up. we were on our way back to our base and we stopped to fix a flat tire. another convoy came up behing us and we told them what we were doin, so they drove past us. about 10 minutes later we got word that they got hit my an IED(imporvised explosive device...basically a homemade bomb that the ragheads put on the side of the road hidden under trash and other shit). all i could think to myself was if we hadnt stopped to fix the tire, we would have gotten hit. no one was hurt thank god. happy 20th birthday to me....well thats all i really got. love and miss you all, and hopefully ill be home sometime next summer, so you all better be there or else im raisin hell
peace
i know its been awhile since my last post. ive been busy, and just really havent had much to say. lets start from training. it was a pain in the ass. up everyday at about 5am, and didnt get to bed till about 11ish. i really cant remember most of it, just most of it was bullshit and pointless. the only good things that we did was learn to shoot all the different guns, and learned how to put an IV into someone. that was for 5 weeks in texas, then we went to Ok for a week. that was even more pointless. pretty much i hated training. but on the plus side, everyone that i met was awesome. ive gotten along with just about everyone im deployed with, so its not all bad. now we get to iraq. it fuckin sucks here. not in the fact that im scared everyday for my life, it more along the lines of being extremely bored when im not out on the road. the base its self is actually really nice. thers a pool on base, plus ive been at the gym everyday since we got here. when were not on the road doin convoys, they have us doin bitch work, which i hate with every being of my body. so we pray everyday that a mission comes down so we can get the hell outta here. on the road life is pretty good. i mean dont get me wrong, everytime we get on the road im scared shitless about being blown up or shot, but id actually rather take that then just sittin on my ass on base. on my first convoy, we stayed the night on a base, in the middle of the night mortors starting hittin the base. i almost pissed myself i was so scared. thank god no one was hurt. im leaving on friday for another convoy up into northern iraq. its the most dangerous up there, and lately its been gettin even worse. im not bitching about it, im just telling the facts. my bday was on the 7th and i almost got blown up. we were on our way back to our base and we stopped to fix a flat tire. another convoy came up behing us and we told them what we were doin, so they drove past us. about 10 minutes later we got word that they got hit my an IED(imporvised explosive device...basically a homemade bomb that the ragheads put on the side of the road hidden under trash and other shit). all i could think to myself was if we hadnt stopped to fix the tire, we would have gotten hit. no one was hurt thank god. happy 20th birthday to me....well thats all i really got. love and miss you all, and hopefully ill be home sometime next summer, so you all better be there or else im raisin hell
peace