Getting Crazy

Well it is getting more difficult to even wipe my nose these days, this place is literally falling down around us. This is the first time I have ever been involved in a retrograde operation to this scale. We have identified that we need 1700 trucks to line haul everything off this FOB and we are lucky to get ten trucks every few days. Well I am not the best mathematician but it's easy to see we are going to fall way short. 

As for me I have my marching orders, I will fly out of this FOB on the morning of the 29th of this month to be in Kandahar to testify in the FEB (flight evaluation board) of Jeff Crownover the morning of the 30th. He will probably be permanently suspended from aviation service for some really bad decisions that he made over here. So since there is no reason for me to go up there for two days and then come back here for three I will wait to be joined by my TaskForce on about the third of July. Then we will get the last four Apaches ready to ship home and through customs and once that is done sometime around the 14th we will fly home. I hope to be in Savannah sometime around the last week in July. I can't wait to see the girls and Robby. Although Robby I will have to wait to see because he was selected to go to South America for an ROTC program to teach English to kids in a small country down there and he won't be home till the end of July. 

For the last two days I have been in Kandahar at the commanders conference working on personnel lay down for once we get back. They have identified my replacement and I was told that I will be doing my handover with Dave Lewis prior toThanksgiving. Right after thanksgiving I will be getting my hand over from Tony Born who is the current Brigade Master Gunner. It's hard to believe that I have had this job for two years all ready. I was lucky to be given the opportunity to bring these guys to combat as their Task Force SP, it was a job that I will never forget. I hope that I will do as well with my next assignment as the Brigade MG. 

Well it's nice to be back in my RLB safe and sound on FOB Wolverine, even if its only for another twenty days. I will be out of here before I know it, the time has passed quickly and for that I am thankful. Well I will try to FaceTime with the girls here in a bit then I am going to bed, night all