Still In Kuwait

Hello Everyone,

I have spent about two weeks here in lovely Kuwait. I think my body has adjusted to being off by about 8 hours. The days here continue to be busy (I like busy days). I have been working on misc duties to help process our soldiers thru here to Bashra. It looks like will will be here past the 1st week of May. Things are going well and drinking lots of water. My workout routine kinda took a dump since I got here, because there is no real routine to my day to day operations. I hope to get back in the swing of things when I get to iraq....most days when I get off duty, I am exhausted. For the most part, I am just happy that I am busy doing something, becasue I would go crazy sitting n doing nothing.

Thats all for now.

Sam

hello kuwait

Hello Everyone!

I have made it to my new home in Kuwait. Things have been going pretty well. I have adjusted to the time change pretty well. I have finished up the required training in Kuwait and am ready to start working. The base here is pretty nice....I am sitting in a Starbucks using the wireless service they have on base. There are all sorts of little shops and services for soldiers here. They really treat us nice here, much better than the environment in Washington. Kinda wierd. I still have one more class that I have to take....it is a NTV (non tactical vehicle) drivers training.....basically a class to allow me to drive regular ol cars on base here. The weather here is nice, sunny and hot. The only thing that could make it better is a pool n a corona. (the only thing this base does not have is a pool now that I think of it). The picture I posted is of the PX (post exchange)...there is all sorts of normal stuff inside and outside they have bazaars with misc vendors. Kinda fun to walk n look. (Randy-they had a hooka both there). Well my battery is running low and I dont have much more time.

Will post more later.

Later,

Sam

goodbye FT Lewis?

I just finished up my pass in Seattle....other than the homeless n bad weather it was allright. It was weird to adjust to civilian life and now back to military life. I spent most of the time with Jess and another couple that was on pass too. I had my first beer in 8 weeks. It was fantastic...lots of cool little places to eat n drink at. The top picture is one of my bags that weighs alot. It is 1 out of 4 bags that i have packed up that are ready to go. I was able to draw my M249 saw again today....I was given a brand new one. We will see how this one works....I liked my last one.

another quick week

Hello All,

This has been another week that has flown by. We are getting closer and closer to wrapping up the training phase in the states. A couple pics of interest: The bottom left is from the turn in facility where we inspect vehicles for turn in. The last day I was there, a stryker unit was shipping out vehicles for a training exercise....it was pretty cool to see them all lined up. There are interesting looking vehicles...what is wierd that they are even more quiet than our trucks. The picture of the sticker is pretty much the symbol for the 34th Infanty Division "Red Bulls".....I have put up countless amounts of those stickers on all of our shipping containers (placed on all four sides). The last picture is of my squad leader, Jason, posing next to the air filter from the fork lift we are using from Ft Lewis.....that was the dirtiest air filter I have ever seen, litterally. We are not assigned to maintain the forklift, but needed to troubleshoot why is was running hot.....it turn out when there is little to no air flow it doesnt want to run right. We have most of our vehicles turned in and there is not much work at the shop left other than clean up. We have had a couple half days at work and is nice to be rested up for the pass we will get. I plan on spending some time in Seattle having a fun time. The next hurdle for me is to get all the of the gear that they have issued me packed up....this will be quite a feat. That is all for now...I am sure I will have some more time in the next couple of days to add another post.

'Till next time,

Sam