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Hard to believe but I’ve finally arrived to Kuwait. Its just how I thought it would be…a desert with one bright ass sun. The flight here was long and treacherously….long.

First was a 5-6 hour flight into Germany. We off loaded and hung out in a sectioned off portion of the airport. This marked my second “visit” to Germany. Granted it wasn’t for very long. The airport pretty much looked like any other airport save for all the German language. The biggest difference was in the bathrooms. The urinals looked like a giant soda can popping out of the wall and the toilets were tightly enclosed. No cracks around the door and no opening along the bottom or top.

Internet terminals could be used at a somewhat decent price. A German keyboard is not quite the same. Such as additional letters and a slight rearrangement of other keys. IE the “y” and “z” key were switched.

The wait in Germany was quite short and I found myself back in the plane for another 4-5 hour flight down to Kuwait. We came in at night and the city we flew over was just beautiful. There were a plethora of colorful patterns in what looked like their downtown section. They had a few impressive skyscrapers. Honestly I didn’t think cities would be this big in Kuwait. Seriously, who wants to live in a desert?

It was several more hours before we actually arrived to our base. A shame it was at night as I would have liked to see the landscape and the surrounding town more. Between the long flight and the 8 hour time difference, I and everyone else totally messed up our sleep. By the time we settled into our barracks and were going to sleep, the sun was just starting to rise.

Now, step one will be to check out this base and see what it has to offer.

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The time has almost arrived. Since Xmas leave, we’ve been just hanging around the barracks. Occasionally doing training here and there. For the most part though, we’ve been seeing our families. Many have come down to the base while all us soldiers wait to leave. In fact, all the hotels in the local area have been booked solid. We’ll first leave for Kuwait before we get into Iraq. Where we are going in Kuwait or Iraq, who knows. When we are leaving exactly, got me. I suppose they’ll tell us right at the last minute. Until then, consider this the last post from in the states.

With all this down time, we sometimes will go wild and do crazy things. Here’s a video of my bunk mate and I doing a ninja attack with our samurai flip flops.

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Though I’ve uploaded these a few days ago, here’s the post showing them off. These mark the last of my videos I was able to upload. Are there more to upload…yes but only a few. Guess we won’t see them until the end of the deployment.

For now, we are all back at Fort Dix, NJ. Not much happening save for some minor training here and there. Basically we’re awaiting to ship out to Kuwait. When? Beats the shit out of me. Will probably find out last minute. Tight lip and all which is understandable. All I do know is we are having a friends and family day this Saturday on the 10th. For one last day any friends and family can come down to visit us and say their final goodbye. :)

Without any more delay…enjoy the videos!

Everyone talking before they head out on mission.

Wallace attempts to dance with his M4.

Our own music video to Vanilla Ice. Funny!

While celebrating Kov’s BDay, he sucks down a bunch of helium from a balloon.

Rhoad’s stresses out about a task of writing up a PMCS table.

Everyone learns about Krammes’s ability to kick himself in the head….Literally!

A completely random taping. This one is actually from Fort Dix.

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I finally figured out how to get the videos from the company issue camcorder working. The fix is was rather simple and kind of stupid but hey if it works…it works. Unfortunately the quality of the videos is not great. Infact, my own digital camera takes better shots. Oh well. Still managed to get some good vids. Enjoy!

Gumby complains about his gay phone.

Rhoad’s was in a motorcycle crash just before mobilization. This is shows some of the damage.

Just a short random clip from within the stryker.

While sitting on the back of a moving stryker, I almost drop the video camera.

Randomly shooting the guys talking, here the subject hits about getting a field fuck.

Just another random shooting of the soldiers.

A bit long, I just walk around while the guys eat some chow. Some interesting things occur.

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