Day to Day

Hey everyone. It's been almost a week since my last post. Things are going well here at FOB Warhorse. If you want to know where that is, check out Baqubah, Iraq and we are about 10 miles NE of the city center. The guys are all getting settled in. As new rooms get built, the guys will be living two to a room. They have been working hard to get all our vehicles prepared and ready to roll. We have been waking up at 4:30 AM and doing PT from 5:00-6:00 everyday, Monday through Friday. I think everyone is really going to try and take advantage of this year and get in really good shape. There isn't a whole lot to do on the FOB except work out and relax. The guys spend a lot of their downtime playing video games, watching movies, or playing cards. They have really been working hard, and it is only going to get busier here in the next few weeks. We started construction on a small gym in the back of the tents. Our company got a lot of money to purchase fitness equipment right before we deployed. If you want to see the kind of workouts we do throughout the week, go to http://www.crossfit.com/ and check out the "WOD" demos. They are pretty intense workouts. Other than that, we are just settling in and getting used to everything. I hope you all are doing well. Feel free to leave me a message on this blog with any questions you may have. If you do want to post to this blog, you will need to register an account with google (which takes about 2 minutes). Just click "follow this blog" and it should take you through the process. Take care everyone, and expect to hear from me sometime in the next few days or so.

PS- These pictures are of the guys just hanging out in the tent.

Our new home

Hello friends and families. Since my last post the platoon has settled into what will be our new home for the next 12 months or so (for now anyways...). Due to operational security I won't say where exactly we are or how long we've been here. However, we are currently living in a giant tent divided into rooms by plywood partitions. The guys are currently tearing down the walls to build nicer rooms for everyone. On the FOB (forward operating base) we have a nice dining facility, two gyms, an MWR facility with internet and phone access, a coffee shop, a PX, and a ton of other little shops. Overall the place is pretty nice. I'm working on getting wireless internet to my personal computer so that I can post some pictures pretty soon. Talk to you all soon.

Kuwait

Hello everyone! We are now at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, near the border with Iraq. We flew from Hawaii to Minnesota, from Minnesota to Leipzig, Germany, and from Germany to Kuwait City. In total it was about 20 hours of flight time. We arrived in Kuwait City about 8:30 pm local time and it was still 106 degrees. Since getting to Camp Buehring, we have conducted some refresher training in preparation to move north into Iraq. Overall it has been a relaxing few days in Kuwait. The heat is insane, but the camp itself is pretty nice.

I'll have to keep this post short and sweet. Internet access is pretty scarce here. It should improve once we get settled into our new home in Iraq. Hope everyone is doing well. Take care and talk to you soon.