very soon my flight will be leaving here in Kuwait to take from here to Iraq. Should be a helluva trip. Wish me luck!

So this is by far the funniest thing that I have ever seen in the military.

While waiting in line for chow here in Kuwait...
SGT Bolen - "Hey, Bounds, why you gotta be such a know-it-all?"
SPC Bounds - "Well, at least I'm better than CPT Kirby. 'I know EVERYTHING, I know EVERYTHING'..."
CPT Kirby - emerges from behind several tall soldiers "Oh is ( Read more... )

Greetings! From sunny Kuwait!
Had a hell of a flight. Spent most of the trip throwing up cuz I ate the airline breakfast.
It's unseasonably cool here in Kuwait today. Only got up to 110...
I have probably slept a total of 8 hours in the last 3 days...
But I'm here and relatively safe!

So I'm leaving Monday (tomorrow) for Iraq. If any of you had anything you have always been dying to ask me, then call my cell before 3pm tomorrow afternoon. I will be sending my phone away at that time, and forming up for deployment at 6pm. So call me or something...

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At this particular time you are feeling the results of extreme stress and you are seeking a 'way out' but you are pushing too hard. Obviously you need peace, tranquillity and contentment. Your temperament is such that you are hoping, unrealistically perhaps, that your desires will shortly be fulfilled (even if at this time you are not quite sure ( Read more... )

I'm leaving in 5 days... Possibly earlier...
We're going to a bad spot...
It's gonna be roughing it for a few months at least...
And to top it all off, she did it again...

So if I end up with internet access in Iraq, this is going to be my online journal. Sorry, no classified or sensitive information will be posted here (Patrick), just a vague account of my journey.

So in my last 2 days at Ft Huachuca, I took a few pictures...and one video from today...enjoy




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I now know in concrete my information on my leave!! Here's the shakedown ( Read more... )

The next time I hear of someone who thinks that the US goverment purposefully murdered 3000+ of their own citizens so that president bush could make a quick buck taking all the oil from the middle east (we've taken none - FYI), I'm going to severely injure them. And no, I'm not kidding, if someone ever tells me this in person, I'm going to severely ( Read more... )