A Year In The Sandbox

They finally published the reporting instructions for CST at Ft Bragg. The good news is that I’ll be leaving straight from there to go to Afghanistan, so no lugging duffel bags and weapon cases back to Lackland. There’s some equipment they require us to have that wasn’t on my initial issue list, so [...]

I was under the impression that there wasn’t much hostility in Afghanistan anymore and the fighting was pretty much contained to Iraq. A couple things in the news recently have been a bit of a wake-up call, though. At the beginning of the month 2 US Soldiers were killed by an IED in [...]

I almost missed the briefing!  I thought it was scheduled for 0930, so I show up at work at 0700 and start my day.  At about 0720 I check the paper just to be sure and see that it’s scheduled for 0730!  So I grabbed my hat and ran back out to the car and [...]

I 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 [...]