Bombs Away

corey    Military, News    

We finally got to bomb something! You probably saw it on CNN this last weekend, blowing up some building in Fallujah. It’s nice to see that after all our work our pilots are finally able to bomb something. It’s also nice to see that we loaded them right, otherwise they would have missed (no fins came out to guide it) or not blown up (fuze wasn’t pulled)! I don’t think it was one of my bombs; we’ve loaded, unloaded, and loaded again a lot the last couple weeks, so who knows who’s bomb that was.

Over in OPS(Operations) they have the cockpit video but I haven’t had a chance to go over and see it yet. I hear the secondary explosions are pretty cool.

The current rumor of the week is that we will be leaving for Qatar on the 26th, and then leave from there on the 28th. Hopefully that means I will be home by the 29th. We’ve not been told for sure, and we probably won’t know until the day before we leave.

I really feel sorry for the Army guys who have to be here for a year or more! While I could probably handle any period of time over here, it’s infinitely harder to stay motivated when you have no idea when you are going home. Matter of fact, I think 30 days is harder than 90. It’s always almost time to go home, at least with a 90 day stint you are resigned to hanging out for a couple of months.

It sounds like it’s nice and cool back home, I can’t wait! (Watch: I’ll get in on the 29th or 30th and it’ll be 99 degrees!)

I was trying to find some more pictures to post, but haven’t really found anything good. The photographers here on base upload all of their pictures to a shared drive so I get to look through them. Unfortunately, a lot of them haven’t been approved for public release so I can’t post some of the better ones.

Things are going well here, we haven’t had more than a couple attacks since the one that killed those guys. The food still tastes the same, the showers and latrines are broken half the time, and my bed is half buried in dust. Same as yesterday, probably the same as tomorrow. But not for long! :)

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