Well it has been a wild beginning to our time here. We left LA on January 25th after an amazing going away ceremony at a great church we packed up and left for the airport about o’dark30. We embarked on the first leg of our journey.
When we got to Texas we checked into our barracks (pictures coming soon) and had some down time before the first of many many formations. Our time there was filled with paperwork, training, briefings, paperwork, shots, training, paperwork, and paperwork. We ended up leaving around March 1
We went through some interesting places, Newfoundland CANADA and somewhere in the Netherlands, both places we just got to see the airport (pictures coming soon)
When we arrived we had been traveling like 26 hours only to find we could not land due to some dust and the airport lights being out, so we were diverted to some Air force base south somewhere, it wasn’t bad we stayed there a couple days then off we went. We arrived at Camp Arifjan like 2200 and checked into our rooms and slept for couple of hours then more briefings, formation, paperwork and a driving test in order for us to be able to drive here in country. Well that was the first month or so of my active duty experience. I’ll add more about our transition training soon. Thanks for reading.




Sounds like a lot of paperwork! Are they feeding you well? Do you get to watch Friends? What is the currency? What are the locals like? What is the strangest local tradition you have come across? How many are bunking with you?
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They feed us really well, I have cut back I’m still trying to lose some weight. I have a bet with Shanna if I lose 50 pounds. I watch some best of episodes of friends I got from iTunes. We don’t use the currency here we use a eagle cash card kinda like a prepaid visa card I reload every time I get paid. Locals are nice we have little contact with them but they seem nice.I have one other guy I’m bunking with we have a great area so we have enough space.
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Is there anything I can send that you need? Should I make you a Patriotic Quilt?
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