A Year In The Sandbox

I went today to knock out as much of my pre-deployment checklist as I could. My first stop was deployment health in the basement of the hospital. There they looked up my records to figure out what medical processing needed to be done before I left. With that list in hand I headed upstairs to [...]

It’s hurry up and wait time now. I have a checklist I have to finish that I’m going to take care of tomorrow. It’s mostly medical stuff. After that I just have to wait until the rest of my equipment is here and get my travel arrangements. I’m planning on coming home on the 28th [...]

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’ll have [...]

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 the same [...]

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 [...]