Final Months...

Just recently we have reached our year mark for this deployment, it's been a very hard deployment for Stephanie and I. But on a good note the first twelve months of this deployment went smoothly in regards to violence. Absolutely no attacks on our company whilst moving three times to different operation areas. We've been south of Baghdad, the rural countryside of Raminayah adjacent to the bustling city of Suwayrah. Then with a move after six months to COP Meade, our sector being Minari, Bayjia, and an old war torn AA complex. Which was part of Saddam's brutal AA circle completely surrounding Baghdad. After about five months we then moved to our current JJS, Sadiyah. Nestled perfectly in center city Baghdad about a 15 minute drive to the Green Zone and 10 min to the deadly Sadr City.

We still have about a month left here in Iraq...We are all very anxious to get home to our loved ones, Especially I... And yes if you look in the picture that is a classic red Mustang and yes it was in pristine condition. Anyway back to the point it is now mid April, this month signifies the anniversary of the fall of Saddam's Regime. So basically violence is up this month. Our platoon has been attacked now three times in about three weeks awesome right. The first being a basic small arms attack, the second being a grenade attack on myself and third squad while searching houses, and the third last night first squad was conducting a raid on a house and were attacked by a grenade and then shot upon by AQI forces apparently. Let me tell you they reacted well by pumping 300 rounds of machine gun fire into the house....A sight to see from previous experience...

Anyway in the next couple of months I'll be sitting in America for one whole month of leave....There's a lot to be done in the month of June. I plan on going to England to visit my mother, hopefully not alone, I plan on asking, and well who knows about July 4Th. Then there's a wedding somewhere in there. Its kinda overwhelming because I'm so used to a schedule sort of most of the time. Moving on. I'm so anxious to see Stephanie for more then two weeks. It's going to be so unreal what am I going to do with myself.


Next, Stephanie has been getting sort of overwhelmed lately which is respectable....Our Life is about to start..Who wouldn't be a little edgy. There are a lot of things on the plate in the next months or so. Moving to a whole new state, which isn't a big deal for me but its a huge step for Stephanie and I've got to give her time to warm up to the move. It's not everyday you wake up and headed in a new direction. I can only reassure her that things will work out. Yes they may have a few bumps in the road, but I've promised her and I can't break that promise. Moving on, with the move comes the apartment, the job and well the social life. Yea I've done this many times before but it's still exciting to me. It's like moving to a new school. New people, new environments, new everything. It's very very EXCITING. At least that's the way I see it. Hopefully I can show her that it's okay to be scared but to embrace it also..Like the first hill of a roller coaster. By far the biggest issue we have as of late is the movement of our stuff from point A to point B, because we are not married its our stuff is not located in all one area we have to move things to my dad's house. Which isn't really a problem just a hassle but it OH SO WORTH IT... COLORADO .........




I'd say we are very anxious and excited for the future...Yes it's taken a descent amount of time....To me she is well worth the wait...=This is my Dream Girl we are talking about. The person I'd do anything for....anything=....