As you may already know, I'm off to another adventure in Iraq. I'll be gone for another 5 weeks with the potential to be extended a bit longer....won't know until a few weeks from now. So, just when I'm getting ready to go home I'm sure I'll end up extending. I'm not complaining, it's far better to be extended by a couple of weeks than by 3 months like is happening for active duty Army over here. Poor things, they came over here for 12 months and just found out it's being extended for 15. I was talking to a young private on my flight from dulles (wash d.c) to kuwait and he just found out he was going to be going home in october instead of august...3 more months to wait until he would be able to live with his newborn son.
we arrived at kuwait city internationl airport at about 5 in the afternoon....it's 11:51 pm now. we've been warming the comfy seats at the starbucks for a while now. they only have shuttles to the air base every 4 hours so if you don't make one then you have a few lattes to get through until you can catch the next shuttle. 2 of my team members went on to the base at 10:30 and the 3 of us are still waiting for another shuttle. so, it's a good primer for the rest of the trip: learning patience and being flexible is key to sanity.
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