I figure that i will give a little explaination of the posts that i just put up. i haven't had internet on my computer for a while so i have been doing most of my internet work from a public computer. now i have finally had a chance to get my computer on the net so i am posting these for you. things are going well over here... i am on the night recovery crew today so i don't need to be out to the airfield until about 8 pm. so i am going to relax today and just chill for a while.
still missing everyone and i hope things are going well at home
Signing off
Monday, August 13, 2007
a week in
Well, we have been here for a week now and things are finally picking up. About two days ago we started getting our aircraft in from the port. The first couple of days were pretty much just getting used to the heat. Other than that we had a few classes that we had to take, but most of them only lasted for about an hour and the rest of the time we just had to hang out seeing the sites (not much… mainly sand and… sand and… yeah, more sand.) You can only go to the PX and the Internet Café so many times before you get bored. Other than that, I have beat the original final fantasy, finished a book that I started on the flight over here. Gotten plenty of sleep.
Now that the aircraft are here we have finally gotten to start doing what we are supposed to be doing. Tomorrow morning is my first flight since leaving Fort Sill over a month ago. For the last three days we have been getting the helicopters ready for all of the sand and making them safer for the crew by putting in ballistic plates. When we flew the helicopters to port back in the states we loaded them all up with a ton of equipment to get them shipped over here, and now that they are here we had to unload all of them. Today we did a bunch of dailies to make sure that the birds are ready to go when we start flying them tomorrow. The flight schedule for tomorrow is pretty crazy busy. EVERYBODY from A Co. is flying at least an hour. Some of our trainers are flying 4 hours. That is going to be a long day.
hope that everyong is doing ok, miss you all
Signing off
Now that the aircraft are here we have finally gotten to start doing what we are supposed to be doing. Tomorrow morning is my first flight since leaving Fort Sill over a month ago. For the last three days we have been getting the helicopters ready for all of the sand and making them safer for the crew by putting in ballistic plates. When we flew the helicopters to port back in the states we loaded them all up with a ton of equipment to get them shipped over here, and now that they are here we had to unload all of them. Today we did a bunch of dailies to make sure that the birds are ready to go when we start flying them tomorrow. The flight schedule for tomorrow is pretty crazy busy. EVERYBODY from A Co. is flying at least an hour. Some of our trainers are flying 4 hours. That is going to be a long day.
hope that everyong is doing ok, miss you all
Signing off
Firsrt day in Kuwait
Hey,
Well this brings about the end of the first full day in Kuwait. I know that by the time that you are reading this the first full day will have been over for quite a bit of time, but I am doing my best to keep up so that when I do post these it won’t be 1 huge long post that will be horrible to read. Yesterday we traveled here by dc-10 that is a huge airplane and it was just about full. We had 2 stops between here and when we took off. The first was in banger maine and the second was in Shannon Ireland. The first leg of the trip was the shortest only around 3 hours or so. The second one was about 6 hours and the third closer to 8. It was weird because we left about noon on Saturday and didn’t get here until about 5 pm on Sunday, and after that we still had a 2 hour bus ride from the airport in Kuwait city to Udairi Kuwait. We are staying in a 50 man tent with all of the males from alpha company. The weather here is sunny and hot. The sun comes up around 5 or 6 here… really early, and it sets really early too… around 7 or so. During the day the temperature gets up to 130 as a high (which it was today) and it drops to about 90-95 at night. When they talk about it being a dry heat you really know the difference once you have felt the temperatures here. When we were in Oklahoma, it was very humid and it only got up to about 100 there, but it felt hotter there and it was more physically draining there because you sweated a lot more. Here there is no moisture in the air so there is almost no humidity so it is really hot, but it isn’t any worse than being in Oklahoma. The base is pretty nice there are 3 different chow halls and 4 meals a day if you want to eat them. We had today to acclimate to the weather and tomorrow we will start some sort of training I think that it is just going to be classroom type stuff. Oh and by the way… everything over here is airconditioned so unless you have to spend the whole day outside you don’t get too hot overall. Well, I am going to get some sleep.
Hope that everyone at home is doing well, and keeping safe
Signing off
Well this brings about the end of the first full day in Kuwait. I know that by the time that you are reading this the first full day will have been over for quite a bit of time, but I am doing my best to keep up so that when I do post these it won’t be 1 huge long post that will be horrible to read. Yesterday we traveled here by dc-10 that is a huge airplane and it was just about full. We had 2 stops between here and when we took off. The first was in banger maine and the second was in Shannon Ireland. The first leg of the trip was the shortest only around 3 hours or so. The second one was about 6 hours and the third closer to 8. It was weird because we left about noon on Saturday and didn’t get here until about 5 pm on Sunday, and after that we still had a 2 hour bus ride from the airport in Kuwait city to Udairi Kuwait. We are staying in a 50 man tent with all of the males from alpha company. The weather here is sunny and hot. The sun comes up around 5 or 6 here… really early, and it sets really early too… around 7 or so. During the day the temperature gets up to 130 as a high (which it was today) and it drops to about 90-95 at night. When they talk about it being a dry heat you really know the difference once you have felt the temperatures here. When we were in Oklahoma, it was very humid and it only got up to about 100 there, but it felt hotter there and it was more physically draining there because you sweated a lot more. Here there is no moisture in the air so there is almost no humidity so it is really hot, but it isn’t any worse than being in Oklahoma. The base is pretty nice there are 3 different chow halls and 4 meals a day if you want to eat them. We had today to acclimate to the weather and tomorrow we will start some sort of training I think that it is just going to be classroom type stuff. Oh and by the way… everything over here is airconditioned so unless you have to spend the whole day outside you don’t get too hot overall. Well, I am going to get some sleep.
Hope that everyone at home is doing well, and keeping safe
Signing off
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
just a short one
I just wanted to let everyone know that i am doing ok and that i am safely in Kuwait. i will update this again soon when i get a chance. i am going to be putting a few posts on at a time when i get a chance, i wrote one last night in word because i don't have the internet on my computer, and i am still not on my computer so i will be posting them when i get a chance. Things here are going well, have spent some time getting used to the heat other than that things are going well.
I hope that everyone at home is staying safe and that they are having fun.
Signing off
I hope that everyone at home is staying safe and that they are having fun.
Signing off
Friday, August 3, 2007
Getting ready to go
I said that i would start up my blog again when i was getting ready to go... so here it is. i am back in oklahoma again, waiting to go to kuwait. we have a very large room comparatively here in oklahoma and all of the floor was covered with equipment, with exception of the walkways.
today we have all of our bags packed and they are waiting in the hallway to get loaded up to get on the airplane and the room is very open right now because of the lack of equipment. i took the time and cleaned up about 1/2 the floor by hand, well, i guess you could say by foot. i used a scottbrite pad and a mop to scrub all of the dirt off of the floor. the other half of the room hasn't been done et, but someone else is going to do that so i am good to go on that. all i have left to pack is my computer equipment and all of the other stuff that i am going to bring on the plane. when we take off we have a 24 hour plane ride ahead of us. i have no idea of where we are going to be stopping, but it is going to be a lot of time spent on a plane and just enough time to get off and stretch our legs while they re-fuel. this is just a short entry, but it will be getting better as the days go by. i will talk to you all soon, but it may be a couple of days...
hope that everyone at home is still ok, and i miss you all
Signing off
today we have all of our bags packed and they are waiting in the hallway to get loaded up to get on the airplane and the room is very open right now because of the lack of equipment. i took the time and cleaned up about 1/2 the floor by hand, well, i guess you could say by foot. i used a scottbrite pad and a mop to scrub all of the dirt off of the floor. the other half of the room hasn't been done et, but someone else is going to do that so i am good to go on that. all i have left to pack is my computer equipment and all of the other stuff that i am going to bring on the plane. when we take off we have a 24 hour plane ride ahead of us. i have no idea of where we are going to be stopping, but it is going to be a lot of time spent on a plane and just enough time to get off and stretch our legs while they re-fuel. this is just a short entry, but it will be getting better as the days go by. i will talk to you all soon, but it may be a couple of days...
hope that everyone at home is still ok, and i miss you all
Signing off
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