SubscribeI guess today was the real beginning. I was notified of the deployment a couple weeks ago, but today was the first day I had to actually do anything related to it. I had a briefing with the deployment office at my unit where they gave me a list of equipment I would need to be issued. It’s a pretty sweet list with all new uniforms which is nice because they’re issuing the Airman Battle Uniform (ABU) now instead of the old Desert Combat Uniform (DCU). I left work a couple hours early and headed over to the Logistics Readiness Squadron (LRS) to see what I could get from the list.
I ended up with about half of what was on the list and the rest was back ordered. I got 2 pairs of steel-toe desert boots, about 12 pairs of socks, 6 tshirts (the wrong size…), 2 thermal underwear bottoms (the tops were back ordered), several different pairs of gloves, a CamelBak, earplugs, insect repellent, 4 ABU shirts (the pants were back ordered) and some other stuff I can’t remember. Also back ordered were the ABU Gortex parka and pants, which are what I was really looking forward to getting. All together it’s about $1200 worth of stuff.
Tomorrow I have a pre-deployment training briefing where I should get some more information about Combat Skills training. Right now all I know are the dates and the location. It’s at Ft. Bragg from early August through late October.
I’ll update again tomorrow when I find out more!
