It took about 20 hours to get from Washington to Kuwait, and I totally lost a day in the process. After arriving at Camp Buehring, KWT at 10:30 at night, we woke up at 3am for an early morning range, the idea being that we’d be done before it got too hot. In actuality, we didn’t finish zeroing our weapons until noon.
I ended up spending over 2 weeks in Kuwait, which is about 2 weeks too long. We had some trainings scheduled and I did sick call every morning, but mainly the days were pretty dull. We got acclimatized to the heat, caught up on some sleep, went to the gym and drove eachother crazy in our 30 person tents.
So, all units pass through Kuwait on their way in or out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Many units take the time and effort to decorate the concrete barriers that are up everywhere. Some of the art is pretty bad, but some is rather interesting:
Pictures
It took another 12 hours to travel from Kuwait to Iraq, but I arrived this morning at 4am. I get to skip morning sickcall, but will start work at 1pm this afternoon.
The internet in Kuwait was expensive and unreliable, I would go every morning after sickcall to the USO tent, where you could wait in line for 2 hours in order to use internet for 20minutes. I checked my email and that was about it. Here in Iraq, the wireless is much better and I hope to be able to update this on a semi-regular basis as well as stay in touch with folks via email. Please email me if you want my snail mail address as well.
More later
Peace
