We are back at Camp Pendleton. Literally doing nothing, which is pretty cool. I just wish my cell phone worked. Damn mountains.

Should be home next Saturday or there-bouts.

Rhinemein/Frankfurt, Germany.

Only for a little bit.

Camp Victory,Kuwait:

Well I'm finally out of Iraq. Which is a good thing.

I'm gonna go eat some Subway and BaskinRobins right now.

More to come...

I'm declaring this my last LiveJournal post from Iraq. All my bags are packed. I'm ready to go...NOW ( Read more... )

Nothing really going on here. I'd love to say there was, but alas nothing of interest has happened over the past few days ( Read more... )

Fortunately there was no fire fight as we convoyed to Taqqadem from Abu Ghraib. As we pulled away I looked at the prison and thought "If all goes as planned I'll never see this place again. What do I want my final image of it to be ( Read more... )

After venting, talking to daveamongus and getting some sleep I feel much better. I still can't imagine what Matt must be going through right now ( Read more... )

I have not had to work in the past 26 hours and suddenly I have nothing to engage my mind except the events of the past 9 months. It happened as I was trying to think of what to comment in McClintick's last entry. This wave of emotions that I've suppressed for the past 9 months just washed down on me and I found myself crying as I sat here ( Read more... )

Well our relief did finally show up. And its funny to hear them bemoaning the "hot" weather. One said to me ( Read more... )

Lessons learned in the past few days ( Read more... )