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| Blogging may be more difficult than expected. If you are interested in my experiences in Iraq please send an email to jon@chipeta.net and I will add you to my Iraq mailing list. In my emails I will also include links to pictures I take out here. Thanks, Jon | | |
| I arrived in Al Assad, Iraq two days ago. I'm headed out to Haditha Dam tomorrow. Access to internet is limited at present, but should improve once I arrive in Haditha. So far life has been very different from anything I was expecting. I've started recieving combat pay, but life feels very non-combative. More later.... P.S. The food in Al Assad is very tasty and fresh. | | |
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Memoirs of a Geisha (Widescreen 2-Disc Special Edition)
By Ziyi Zhang, Suzuka Ohgo, Ken Watanabe, K�ji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Li Gong, Kaori Momoi, Tsai Chin, Zoe Weizenbaum, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kenneth Tsang, Randall Duk Kim, Ted Levine, Paul Adelstein, Samantha Futerman, Michelle Yeoh, Thomas Ikeda, Eugenia Yuan, Y�ko Narahashi, Karl Yune
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All taken during my pre-deployment leave in Colorado. | | |
| I’ve arrived back in Hawaii
and am on the eve of my deployment to Iraq. Sometime next week I will leave Hawaii on a plane headed for Kuwait International
Airport. From there I will travel up to my new ‘home’
in Iraq. I don’t really know what to expect over the
next seven months. I am not looking
forward to certain things like: no time off, missing spending thanksgiving and
Christmas with my family, the stress of combat, and the fear of having some of
my Marines injured, or worse. But I
am also looking forward to parts of the deployment. Few people, even among military personnel, get
to spend time in a combat zone. I am
looking forward to living in a different country for seven months. I am looking forward to brining just a few
quality books and reading and really learning from them. I look forward to opportunities to train the
Iraqi Army in communications techniques. I’m also looking forward to the ways in which
my faith with grow during this time. I’ve
always found that my daily Christian life is strongest when I’m away from many
of modern distractions and am being challenged. By God’s grace I will grow in ways I wouldn’t
if I wasn’t deploying to Iraq.
I have several goals for this deployment and I will probably
share all of them at some point, but one of them is to send out regular emails sharing
my (unclassified) experiences. I will
add most everyone I know to the email list but feel free to be removed if you
don’t want the emails. I will also be
taking my digital camera recording much of what I see with pictures. | | |
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