Countdown to Iraq

I am making this site to keep friends and family and anybody else interested updated on my deployment to Iraq. Because of security reasons I cannot discuss specific details on when and where I am going until I am already there. I can tell you I will be gone before January 15th.
All of our equipment, tanks, trucks, etc. has been loaded on trains and will be making its way to a boat and taken overseas.

I am currently enrolled in a NBC defense Course, which is two weeks long and very intense. I have also recently finished an Iraqi culture class that was taught by two native Iraqis. The information I learned will indeed be helpful while I am over there.