War in Iraq, a Soldier's View

Got settled in a bit more, and found out a bit more what life in Tallil will be like. I was still trying to get over the hacking cough I had developed during the dust storm a few days before.

28-Mar-03 5:27 PM

Today was a slow day, not much happened.

Everybody else moved into the nearby buildings and started making them their personal rooms. Layton, Hansen, Patterson, Svedin, and Keller moved into the Day room and now they claim it’s their room. I can already see that there’s going to be problems when people want to come in and watch movies while others take naps in the afternoon. In the process of moving everything out they burned all the personal possessions of the people had been there before. I guess there’s nothing else we can do with the stuff I still felt like they were burning somebody’s house down or something.

We found out some information about what’s going on around here right now, mail will take so long I hope we’re out of here by time it makes it to us. The DSN line still isn’t up which is too bad I was hoping to call my family this afternoon. The company that promised to let us use their DSN line when it’s up is still saying they’ll let us but they also might be moving out soon. I haven’t talked to my family since before the hostilities started. For all my mom knows I could be on the front line right now.

I’ve been feeling very sick and I might go to sick call tomorrow, I keep waking up in the middle of the night with coughing fits. I think it’s something to do with the sandstorm a few days before. Maybe there was some chemical in the air that’s making me sick, or more likely my lungs are still thick with dust.

Other than that it’s just another day, tomorrow I guess we’ll be making a shower and washing area, if that doesn’t take too much time I’m going to take everything out of the Deuce and clean it out, then I’ll clean myself too.