redeploying

received an exciting email yesterday-an itinerary for the flight from al-udeid to BWI. i let one of my good friends of 20 years who lives in baltimore know when i’d be landing, as he has told me he will meet me at the airport to go out that evening.
i attended my “redeployment” briefing a couple [...]

words from moe senior

 i’ve cut and pasted a few emails regarding thanksgiving and christmas in vietnam below, since i referenced these conversations in an earlier post:
Subject: holidays
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:23:38 +0000
From: michael.xxxx@blab.centaf.af.mil
To: xxxxxx@hotmail.com
What was your Thanksgiving like in Vietnam?  Did anyone come visit fromthe USO?  Was there good food?
Reply Sent 11/22/07:
it was not a lot of [...]

flight christmas party (dec. 22)

scenes from the dfac

staff at the main dining facility.

let them eat cake

cakes prepared by the staff for christmas at the DFAC.  note that according to the sign, only some of them are “eatable.”

here is the area just outside where there were dancers on thanksgiving.  there were carolers on christmas:

christmas day in balad

I’ve dreaded today since mid-August when I got the phone call telling me where I’d spend today. However, it wasn’t bad. Other than my wearing PT gear instead of a uniform today and letting anyone who wanted to go leave after we recovered a flight this morning, it was a pretty normal day. We did [...]

silent night

 
Last night we went caroling. About 10 of us went from the AEOT. We started at the CASF, where several patients and medical providers were. Then we went to the hospital, where we visited the ER, ICU, and several other areas of the facility. There were several Iraqis, including children, in one particular ward we [...]

desert barbie

barbie came in a care package; the camel was purchased at the bazaar, and the outfit was made from an old ace bandage. 

santa at the dfac

after christmas dinner, i found santa and had my picture made today.  notice the ring–santa graduated from the air force academy!

ribbons and christmas party

here is the “holiday greeting” that fox 5 showed last week on 12/19:
http://media.myfoxatlanta.com/special/head/holidayguide/MilitaryGreetings/index.html
i forgot to mention that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mike mullen, also came to the USO show. his picture is one of the posted ones. http://www.jcs.mil/bios/bio_mullen.html
here’s video of the show: http://video.accesshollywood.com/player/?id=198569
we had a squadron commander’s call on saturday [...]