A new update from Ft. Sill. First I would like to Thank Rita Fletcher, Nancy Engler, Cindi Whitmer, and Jennifer Olson for the great cookies I received from them last Friday. The amount of work they must have went through to make and ship 30 lbs. of cookies was greatly appreciated by all that ate them. It was nice to have some homemade goodies. The timing was perfect. The stress of all the training was wearing on us and it gave us a little break from it all. The cookies were all gone by 4:30 Friday afternoon.
Another hurdle is past, We sucessfully passed the eval and had the debrief on Sunday. Most of the comments we had by the trainers was positive with only minor things we could improve on.
This week we are in the middle of packing. We have to have everything that goes by boat loaded into shipping containers by saturday so it can be trucked to port at Corpus Christi, Tx. We fly the helicopters to the port on Friday and Saturday. Not all the Helicopters are leaving, ten are staying back to keep training crews. It takes approximately 3 to 4 weeks to get our equipment to Kuwait. We pick it up there and move it into Iraq. It was nice to get some gear out of our room. With six guys and all our gear in a 15 x 17 ft. room it is crowded. July 23rd is the day we fly home. I'm counting the days to seeing my family. 33 days left. Todd