Henry's Web Log

To all my family and friends, Merry Christmas! Santa came 8 hours earlier here than the East coast of the U.S...he brought me a stocking filled with beef jerky, shampoo, socks, stationary, pringles, candy, a cookie, some candy and several toothbrushes!
We have several wonderful boxes of "any soldier" type care packages because the mail hasn't caught up with us yet. I only posted the APO address a few days ago, but don't lock that in yet! I'm in Tallil right now, but my job is going to be in another camp, serving as the Liaison Officer to our Sustainment Brigade.
I'll post more info once I'm safely there... so let's do a quick review of the hops so far:
1) in-processing for 2 weeks at Ft Jackson, SC.
2) Ordnance refresher for 2.5 weeks at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD.
3) Join the Kansas 287th already mobilized at Ft. Lewis, Washington. 6 weeks there.
4) Ft Lewis to Germany to Kuwait, where we stayed at Camp Buehring for 4 days (most units stay 10-14 days).
5) Buehring to Tallil, Iraq. Meet the commander and the support team here, and got my duty orders.

Five hops in 12 weeks. And number six is coming!

The Internet is super busy tonight, as you can imagine on Christmas. I'll circle back with more photos and hopefully a quick video on living conditions...and an ingenious way some soldiers are rocking out!