Time to Go
Well just a little longer and we will be on a flight back to the states. For some of us here it has been a very long tour. Most of us the second tour with little down time. A unit that has changed with the way we do business and with many changes in accomplishing the mission.
I told myself that I would like to come back with a different rank and well on Feb. 01. My goal was reached. I had earned enough promotion points to make SGT. in the United States Army. This adds more responsiblity to my like. Now i must assume role of role model and take better care of those soldiers under me. I was given my own squad right off the bat. Now it begins to see what i can do when it comes to other soldiers lives in my hand.
Leaving Iraq can not come fast enough now. With all of our stuff packed we are living out of our ruck sacks which means with the bares. Every day brings a struggle to get one of my soldiers to pack up to go home. Nontheless he is just about there. We sit and wait everyday to find out anything about getting out of this country knewing that it will happen just not sure when it will happen. With nothing really to do we find ourselves int the gym just to pass the time. For some it is the gym twice a day and others just when ordered to.
Returning from this deployment could not have come fast enough this time it seemed to drag at times. But we have made it. This tour has taught some in this unit the military is not for them why some still stay commented to the fight. For myself I am looking to move on to a new job with applying for flight med school when returning back to bragg. Time for a change and this is on my way to one more goal of working in Special Operations as a flight medic
Well that is all for me at this time. God speed to all.
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Add comment February 24th, 2008 at 05:47amGeno