April 19
I started a renumber system again, now the day represents the number of days in country.
I have pictures to go with this but will have to add them later.
Well I am currently in Kuwait at a place called Ali Al Saleem air base. I was thrilled to see internet access here however I am only here for two days. We fly out to Iraq tomorrow sometime. We left Indianapolis at 3pm on the 17th; we flew north over Lake Huron and Quebec Canada, Greenland and landed in Shannon Ireland for 1 hour to fuel. Seven hours in the plane at this point. We then flew for 3 hours over Germany, Finland and landed in Budapest Hungary for fuel. We then flew for another four hours to Kuwait City. We had two different units on the plane when we landed in Kuwait and for some reason the KBR security thought we were going to the same base, we were not. So we ended up going for a 2 hour convoy to the base of the other unit so we could drop off there gear, reload our gear on the trucks and head for our staging base. At this point it is 1:30 am and have been up for almost 36 hours with only two hours of sleep on the plane and one hour of sleep on the bus ride to camp Buehring. I don’t know how I fell asleep on the bus; we had security and some crazy bus driver, almost in two accidents lol.
When we landed in Kuwait it was 90 degrees out but didn’t really feel hot, and last night was just perfect temp with a small breeze. I finally got to bed last night a 3:30 am and woke up at 7 this morning but don’t seem tired for some reason. We have nothing to do until 5pm today so internet for me most of the day. Today I should be able to upload a punch of pictures to my website and also update myspace. We are scheduled to fly out of here to our respective places in Iraq tomorrow some time, still unsure were I will be.
They had steak and lobster for supper at Camp Buehring last night, how cool is that?