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September 2002
I get the alert call that I've been activated. Probably one of
the most depressing things a 22 year old can hear.
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October 2002
This month is spent getting things ready for a one year absence.
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November 2002
We're deployed. The first two weeks are spent waiting for a flight
out of Germany, next two are spent in Camp Doha.
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December 2002
After spending another two weeks in Camp Doha the Army realizes
we're supposed to be in Camp Arifjan so we move again.
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January 2003
Turns out Arifjan is alot more comfortable than Doha, Christmas
to the outbreak of war is thought of as the good times of the deployment.
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February 2003
Already homesick we start making bets on when we'll go home, somewhere
a rumor got started that it will only be a six month deployment.
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March 2003
My birthday is spent playing Xbox in our tent. Arifjan quadruples
in size, during the third week everybody disappears, then the War
starts.
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April 2003
A busy month, we never spend more that a couple weeks at any one
place. We visit the Kabals, Camp Coyote, and end the month in Tallil
Airbase. The beginning of May signals the beginning of the hot season
and we have no A/C
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May 2003
We move up to Scandia, a way-station on the way to Baghdad, We
have a tent but that's about it. Since we never have anything to
do we become tourists befriending Iraqis and seeing the local sights.
Rumors of going home fly fast, each day were "supposed"
to go home comes and goes with no news.
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June 2003
After the first week of June we find ourselves on our way home!
Then we get stuck back at Tallil for a month waiting on an email!!!
The Army is the worst bureaucracy
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July 2003
We find out why it's taking so long, the Army didn't know we were
out here we weren't in the computers, they forgot about us.
To say we're pissed off now is the understatement of the year.
We finally get to Doha at the end of the month. I make full use
of the swimming pool.
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August 2003
By the beginning of August were ready to go home we just need
a ship for our equipment.
Halfway through August we get back to the States!!! It doesn't
matter what happens now, were home.
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September 2003
September is my first month home, I kick it of going to GOX and
heading down to Vegas with Layton and Hansen. Life is good
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October 2003
I'm back to normal, the deployment is like a bad dream, I don't
even believe I was really there.
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