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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Departure Rumors
Here's the latest info we currently have, based on all the rumors and conjecture flying around. A few new rumors have now come from multiple sources but aren't official yet. If true, they would make us very happy.
Allegedly the 101st guys that are replacing us now want to take over our base. We'd thought it would be closed down, unsuring that our last month would be FULL of clean-up details and packing heavy equipment over to the KRAB. Also, we'd have to move over to the KRAB, live in tents for at least a month, and still send both work parties and guards back here while the place was being torn apart.
If the 101st does take over our patrol base, we will stay here longer (possibly until late October), then they would take it over from us, and we'd stay at the KRAB hopefully just about a week. If this were to be true, we'd be in Kuwait near early November, back in the States and de-mobilizing at Ft. Lewis through mid-November, and then home before Thanksgiving. That would obviously be HUGE.
Of course the presidential elections in December (30th I think?) might throw a wrench into all that as there are also rumors about us being extended through then, in order to keep U.S. troop strength high for the event. That would not only mean two months more in-country but our second Christmas spent here.
And speaking of elections, the Iraqi people will vote on their new constitution in October, so we'll certainly be busy then too. If things are as quiet as we hope they will be for these elections, then it will bode well for us NOT being extended to cover the presidential elections.
Allegedly the 101st guys that are replacing us now want to take over our base. We'd thought it would be closed down, unsuring that our last month would be FULL of clean-up details and packing heavy equipment over to the KRAB. Also, we'd have to move over to the KRAB, live in tents for at least a month, and still send both work parties and guards back here while the place was being torn apart.
If the 101st does take over our patrol base, we will stay here longer (possibly until late October), then they would take it over from us, and we'd stay at the KRAB hopefully just about a week. If this were to be true, we'd be in Kuwait near early November, back in the States and de-mobilizing at Ft. Lewis through mid-November, and then home before Thanksgiving. That would obviously be HUGE.
Of course the presidential elections in December (30th I think?) might throw a wrench into all that as there are also rumors about us being extended through then, in order to keep U.S. troop strength high for the event. That would not only mean two months more in-country but our second Christmas spent here.
And speaking of elections, the Iraqi people will vote on their new constitution in October, so we'll certainly be busy then too. If things are as quiet as we hope they will be for these elections, then it will bode well for us NOT being extended to cover the presidential elections.
Posted by: Unknown / 8:51 AM 
