Long, Strange, and Frustrating Trip It's Been...

How do you make 37 grown men cry like little school girls? Delay their departure date one or two days at a time for a week and a half and then give them a broken airplane so that they have to spend three days in Germany and overnight in Delaware. Then switch planes and give them a "less broken one" so they get pushed back a few hours and then sit on the plane for an hour and a half.

The last three weeks was the longest three weeks of the whole deployment. I left COP Cashe with our team to go sit up at VBC until we left to go home. We had two tents for all of us guys. Living out of our rucksacks and being in tight quarters with people that we've been living with 24/7 for the past year was quite interesting at times. Especially since there wasn't much to do for the two weeks that we were there. We finally got to leave Iraq and flew to Spangdahlem AFB, Germany.

What a contrast between Iraq and Germany. Literally it was a bresh of fresh air when we got off the plane. It was nice to see the rolling hills, the green grass, and the trees. Here are a few of the pictures that I took. The town is adjacent to the base so we had a great view of the local architect.

I'm glad that I'm not travelling with the Air Force for awhile. For some reason they never asked us to fill out the comment cards. I wonder why?