I have decided to do this blog so that I can inform family and friends about all the "fun" I am having on my deployment. Actually I just wanted to allow anyone who wanted to have a little inside glimpse, from my point of view of what a deployment looks like. Here I go......
Where to start.....getting here was a small adventure in itself. Each person I was traveling with had 4 HUGE duffel bags 1 LARGE ruck sack and a weapons case for every second person. We flew commercial for the first part of the trip and needless to say Delta did not know what to do with us or our bags (pic)!! After over 48 hours of buses, planes and more buses we arrived in Kuwait. The FOB that we are on is a small one for transient soldiers. We will stay here for almost two weeks for training. I am living in a large 60+ person TENT with cots....yeah I thought the bunk beds were bad! I am in a bay with only 3 other girls right now so I am thankful for that. The bathrooms on the other hand I am not thankful for......you have your choice of a far away porta-johny or an even farther away "hard" toilet. Which is a real toilet in a portable little room. None of which smell very good. The showers are in another portable building and only have showers and sinks in them. And of course you must cross the sand to get anywhere. The sand is a chore in itself. We have been here less than a week and we have experienced 2 really windy days (we are still trying to figure out what exactly constitutes a sand storm), where sand ends up in places you never knew existed. The Q-Tips come in super handy. So the living conditions are......interesting......more on that soon!
My plan is to be able to update at least once a week but I am not able to promise anything. We have heard that where we are headed we will have internet which may mean that I can write more often. Please feel free to ask any questions on this site but know that some I may not be able to answer.
Until I can write again.....keep in touch!!
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