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Old Jan 26, 2009 | 10:38 PM
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We get 4 month ones.. I couldn't be in this fckn place for a year..
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Old Jan 27, 2009 | 10:27 PM
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Yea, I'll be home soon. We had a hit earlier, I heard it fly in over the tent and explode when it hit. I've been over here a few times, I knew exactly what it was when it flew overhead and went for my armor as soon as I heard it. Then got ready to go out and went out around the base looking for fires.

No one got killed.
careful, i heard all used/dead optisparks are sent over there and dropped on the camps
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Old Jan 28, 2009 | 07:22 PM
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Well..here's an update guys..

I'm out of Iraq..sitting in Al Udied AB, Qatar, and have to ****** clue when we will be home.

This **** ******* blows.
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Old Jan 28, 2009 | 07:24 PM
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they are just stationing you there now? or temporary? or whats the deal?
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Old Jan 28, 2009 | 07:26 PM
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This is one of the points we all come to to get sent home. No one here knew we were coming here. Basically someone back in Iraq didn't do their ****** job and right now we are taking one up the ***.

Basically we are just here waiting for spots to open up IF they become available, and that's a BIG if.
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Old Jan 28, 2009 | 07:29 PM
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Damn bro sorry to hear you are stuck with no insight of coming back. Hopefully sooner then later!

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Old Jan 28, 2009 | 07:30 PM
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well hey man, isnt it better then taking fire in iraq? I mean, you're relatively safe there as opposed to iraq.
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Old Jan 29, 2009 | 02:49 PM
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Well, from what it looks like someone wasn't reading something right and we were there. Looks like we'll be home this weekend.
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Old Jan 29, 2009 | 02:51 PM
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nice!!!! congrats!!!!
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Old Jan 29, 2009 | 02:57 PM
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That's great news man!
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Old Jan 29, 2009 | 03:04 PM
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good luck merv, stay safe, and im sure every one feels the same as i do, if you need anything give me a holler and ill do my best to help, im here now and i leave in sometime july 09
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Old Jan 29, 2009 | 03:17 PM
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Thanks guys..things are lookin alot better than they were.. we went through hell to get out of Iraq and it was pretty much a kick in a ***** to find out what they told us.

It's one of them things that you have to go through to understand in a way..but all seems well. Thanks for the support.

This is a pretty cool thread in a way, probably the first one that has lasted a whole deployment.
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Old Jan 30, 2009 | 02:33 PM
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Well sitting in the terminal waiting to leave..got a few hours left then we are on the way..
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Old Jan 30, 2009 | 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by the_merv
Well sitting in the terminal waiting to leave..got a few hours left then we are on the way..
good ..now rotate the IRS in ..
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Old Feb 1, 2009 | 03:40 PM
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Back for the super bowl even. And yes, the worst part is sitting in tents in Kuwait or some other place just waiting to go home with jack **** to do. That was even worse than my time in Baghdad. At least there I had something to do.
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Old Feb 1, 2009 | 10:56 PM
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Back home..
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Old Feb 1, 2009 | 10:59 PM
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Welcome home bro!
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Old Feb 2, 2009 | 12:55 AM
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good luck man...stay safe
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Old Feb 2, 2009 | 12:57 AM
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just read the last post...hahahaha my bad...welcome back...damn i feel like an idiot now
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Old Feb 2, 2009 | 01:04 AM
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Originally Posted by LT1-Camo
just read the last post...hahahaha my bad...welcome back...damn i feel like an idiot now
he is in Arkansaw...he may still need that luck to be safe!
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