OCTOBER 3, 2008 - eMail Message:

Yes, it's been almost a month in country. For all that don't know I flew into Iraq on one of our Blackhawk’s on my birthday, 7 Sep. Pretty darn cool!! It was very hot at first but I began to get a little used to it. Now I am doing maintenance on the aircraft at night, 1900-0700. It is cool here at night, almost downright chilly. It's kinda hard to do some work under flash light as we have to have 'light discipline'. Meaning as very few outside lights as possible. Even though they almost certainly have us dialed in. So far there has not been any 'excitement' to speak of. There has been a couple of bad incidents, but you'll have to get info from the news, (operations-security). The Brits have done an excellent job of cleaning out and shooing away the bad guys. This base camp is mainly a British concern and us Americans are right now just a small group. The food and shoppette items are geared toward their tastes. Not always a bad thing. This is a very small camp. I have been told that soon I will go to days to complete some training and start crewing on flights. Yee-haw, ultra cool!! I will update y'all later when that happens. I will also backtrack to get y'all up to speed on how I got here. GTG (to sleep)
                                       In Your Service.............SGT B