Iraq Deployment Log

[Cichlid-Man]

Originally Posted by YahooFishKeeper

since the dont ask dont tell policy is up are you a little more wary in the showers?

in all seriousness though, dont get shot. it would suck a lot.

That hasn't happened yet, thank god. And the only way i'd get shot over here now is with my own weapon.

The Russians were on deck yesterday. You should see these guys, characters i tell you. They reek of vodka and are usually wearing flip flops and Hawaiian shirts (if any shirt) when they get off the plane. They fly like this too.


Air Force C-130 taxing and the Russian bird in the background. Lots of dust storms recently.


The South Carolina guys from my Battalion.



This deployment has opened my eyes to how stupid the other branches of service are, as far as their personnel goes. Sorry if you are involved with them but they literally are stupid. The Army (sorry Jay) moves slower then a cat with no legs stuck in a tar pit i swear and packs 10 times the amount of gear per person then ANYONE else. I hate working with the Army to say the least. Air Force counterparts have been pretty chill and though they do things very lazily, they still work. The Army just drags their butts everywhere. Real convo between me and an Army 1stSgt:

Him: "Wait so you want us to carry all of our bags? I thought you were going to..."
Me: Going to what, throw them? Leave them here when you get on the flight? Kick them hoping you packed a laptop? I'll be glad to.

He grabbed his bags pretty quick.

[Cichlid-Man]

Just wanted to update everyone, getting closer to that date we are all getting pretty excited. Because of the pull out stuff will be leaving the country, this happens to mean internet too. Right now I could be losing internet anytime during the 15th-18th and probably won't have any to very limited access. So you might not hear from me for a few weeks but i'll be back asap for sure.

[tom91970]

Stay safe!