First Blog Entry!

Ok here it is, my first deployment update for my blog. I figured that instead of typing a bunch of different emails that basically say the same thing that i would just do a blog and let everyone read it and find out whats going on over here in the barren wasteland known as Iraq. Hopefully you will be able to figure this out mom, ill try to explain it to you if you have any trouble. The things i post on my blog will have to be a little vague, i cant give it sensitive information since some guy in a government agency monitors all this stuff to makes sure we dont give out too much information. Its called op-sec or operational security. We left California 2 weeks ago but it actually took us 1 week to get to Fallujah. We made stops in Maine, Ireland, Germany and finally Kuwait. We had a lot of down time waiting for a military flight in Kuwait but we finally got one and flew to a base near Fallujah. We then drove from that base to Fallujah. Ive been here for a week now and im starting to get to know the base, at least all the important locations like the gym the chow hall and the internet center. Were getting ready to change over with the unit that well be replacing so things are probably going to get a little hectic and we'll be working long hours.