Well, the last few months have been intresting. I took R&R in Santa Barbara to visit an old war buddy. She's going to Brooks and really working towards a photography thing. I didn't know that there was so much to it. And let me tell you, being a model isn't the easy thing in the world. I think I can do with out. But it was really cool seeing what's all involved, or atleast getting a sneek peek. I'm just really proud of her. Congratulations.

Another Deployment, and another attack. It's big news right now. The DFac bombing. It was almost me.. again. It seems as if dumb luck more then anything is keeping me around. I haven't found out if my friends are ok yet. Things are still a little crazy. And that guy. The Defense guy. Rumsfeld or whatever, he shows up here because that's going to make things better. Well hopefully the year will pass and before I know it my second deployment will be over with. Hopefully my friends are alive and well. Hopefully.. But we all know it's really dumb luck.

That means this year is almost done. That's pretty much all it means when you're down range. You don't even notice weekends or whether it's monday or friday... It's kinda hard to sum up the last month. Think of a car going through a turn... as the car begins to turn the body rolls and the struts and shocks and all that suspension stuff moves. Then there's a point where the body has rolled as much as it's going to and the car "sets" and just runs through the turn. That's where we are with this deployment. Things are running and are going to continue until it's over. This is where some people start itching.. trying to sauce things up. This time it came a lot faster because the last time we kept having to move.. shoot... communicate..... you know, fight the war. So anyway, the year's almost over.

Just tired of being out here. It seems like crap will never end down here. I wonder how many deployments I will have to be in until it's all done.
The damn dirty BDE shrink said that I should have hope for this deployment. I told her, go figure that I don't. I've done this before and I know that there's really nothing to hope for out of this. As if this were some lottery to see who gets the purple heart for getting hit with a mortar.
One month down now. Just less then 11 to go. That means I past the halfway point for serving two deployments. heh, if that means anything is this crazy world.

I can hardly believe that I'm back here down range in Iraq. A lot of things are the same, yet a lot of things have change, and it's only been six months.. heh, after this is done I will have spent two years of the last two and a half years at war in Iraq. It's all madness. The mortars don't even bother me any more. Even when they are about the blow me off the map. There's just nothing you can do about it. And the new.. Female soldiers' heads are worth 200,000 USD. That's if you take it off their bodies and give it to these people to put on television. huh.. I guess my heads' not worth anything. And I thought it was a really nice head.