Ahhh Kyrgyzstan

Today for the first time I wished I was in Air Force. Yep you heard me right, the Air Force. The air base I am at right now is AWESOME. It is about the size of college campus. There is a good chow hall that is open 24 hrs, 3 phone centers, a whole little shopping plaza with all kinds of little shops, a Pizza hut and a Green Beans Coffee, we can get wireless internet in our racks and there is even a bar here where the permanent personnel (aka Air Force bubbas) can drink 2 beers a day. This place is the lap of luxury to bad I'm laving today for the loveliness of a Marine Corps run base.
I am so excited.

The Last Day

What to say, what to say. I can tell you this I am defnitly ready to be done with SoCal. After 5 and a half months of worthless training I'm ready to see what my squad and I can get done. I have just spent the past two days packing for this excursion. The Marine Corps, in its infinite wisdom, told us that we were only allowed a 10lbs carry on and that our three other bags had to weigh less than 60 lbs a piece. Using my almost complete degree in mathematics I have determined that each Marine can take 190lbs of gear over seas with him. I am about 90% positive that I am sitting roughly at 210lbs of gear right now. I'll let you know who wins

so bored its boring

For the next couple days I am on standby before we head to the airport for our flight outta here. "Standby" means we sit in our rooms repacking gear for the 100t time, sleep, watch movies, or play video games. This wouldn't be terrible (lets face it i get paid a whole bunch to play Mario Kart) but its all I and my Marines have been doing for the past 5 months. Here's hoping everything changes in the next week.

Howdy

Hey friends. Ive decided to try and keep a journal/blog for this deployment. I don't do a very good job of sharing my emotions with people but I have decided that this deployment I would try to fix myself and you get to watch. My plan is to give a rough outline of my day to day activities and my commentary on that so we shall se what happens. Internet access might bad so I wont be able to update online that much but I'm going to write stuff down and kind of outline my next 7 months for you all emotional roller coaster and all. So hang on lets go for a ride.