Well Life at Al Asad,

  What can I say. After spending 5 years on IRR having my resignation denied due to stop loss in 2003 Getting called up and not only that they assign me the most nonspanish speaking person in the world to a National guardunit out of Puerto Rico. I spent 3 worthless months supposedly preparing to go to war and spend more money out of pocket doing so. I finally hit country and spend 2 days in Kuwait where the only training we didwas firing 15 rounds out of our weapons, then 2 days at Anaconda and on to Al Asad. Now I really fight more boredom than anything. I take careof sick call in the morning then spend  most of the day trying to figure out how to kill time.

  Now the best part is They sent me here as a small 4 man detatchment. 2 of the 3 they sent with me barely speak english. Make for a fun time trying to teach them medicine. Also One snores so loud that I actually wore my earplugs to bed last night so that I can sleep through the night. It did work though. W e did get a sattelite dish that picks up AFN sports channel and got that working, I bought a 14inch TV at the PX for 109 and we got to watch tennis O boy.

  So I spent the past 3 years watching the Eagles choke 1 game away from the super Bowl. The year they decide to send me to iraq they freaking makeit to the show. I should have bet on them making it when I got my orders because you knew it would happen. Withthe way The sattelite goes out up here I guess I will be lucky to see it.

SO all is OK otherwise I want my family that actually folows this blog to know that. Pretty safe here. Will be interesting to see if things change during the elections.

I am trying to get my wife Tracy to post on here as well Thanks steve for setting her up. Michellewas a HUGE help to her with a lot of things and a great source of support  so if anyone has questions for Tracy as the wife of an IRR callup drop a line.

By no means was this meant to be a whining post. I look at my situation and all I can do is laugh most of the time. There are a LOT of guys(and girls) who have it worse than me and I know that. I am really living LA vida loca.

Adios until next post

HI Tracy, I miss you and I love you!!!

GO EAGLES!!