Thursday, May 26, 2005

Time Left in Country… Hopefully

Many people have asked how much longer we’ll be here. We’ve been told that we will be completely done and back home "Definitely by Christmas, possibly by Thanksgiving." I believe I might actually be back in Boise by Halloween, but we’ll just have to wait and see.

The process of leaving will be a slow one. Since we live out on a patrol base, we’ll first have to close down the base in early fall (the unit relieving us, an element of the 101st Air Assault is not taking over this base as part of the effort to start to pull back on US presence in the region), go live at the KRAB for X weeks (hopefully weeks and not months), shuttle down to Kuwait and stay there for X weeks, fly back to the US to a base to ‘de-mobilize’ at, and then finally back to Boise. Of course we’ve been told that we will be one of the last units to leave here, but that just didn’t surprise us, since we tend to get the short end of the stick.

The ‘de-mob’ process could last between 10-30 days and includes things like exit interviews, turning in lots of gear, mental health issues, and surely a ridiculous amount of briefings. We’ve been told that this could occur at Ft. Lewis, Wash., Ft. Carson, Colo., or possibly back at Ft. Bliss, Texas. Most of the guys are pulling for Ft. Lewis, since it’s closest to home.

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