Well, I have arrived. A full 24 hours are behind me on R & R. The flight/s to get here were abismal. 4 flights (Iraq to Kuwait to Ireland to Texas to Chicago). A total of 22 hours in the air. Nearly 3 days to get home including layover time. But I’m home.
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Today I started the long journey home for a little R&R. I arrived at the transport terminal in Iraq at 6:30am. See that time stamp on the blog? Yup.. still waiting. Rumor has it a flight will be leaving here around 7:45pm. But not to the States. No. I’ll be taken to Kuwait first…. then […]

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For the last 2 days, there has been spring in the air. It’s odd for me to be experiencing this feeling since it’s not even midway through February. Usually I would be bundled in my long black wool jacket with scarf, gloves, and black hat. I would be cursing the piles of snow freshly formed […]

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