85 days is approximately how long we have until our main body deploys to Iraq. Some will be leaving up to 2 weeks earlier, and we have about a 7 day window for the main body to deploy, but after the last 3 weeks, I know that some of us are ready to just get on the plane and get over there. Our battalion had our MRE (Mission Readiness Exercise) over the last 3 weeks, spending 13 days in the field doing missions and being graded on our readiness for war. Now that we are back, it is time to pack up all our equipment to ship out and do our last minute prep for deployment before block leave in December. This weekend I will be doing all my shopping for supplies to pack in the containers that are being shipped so I don't have to try to get things once I get downrange. Monday is a day off, but we have a battalion organization day at Bellows Beach, should be a decent time. I'm hoping to represent my company in volleyball or ultimate frisbee, but we'll see if they let me this time. (Last org day I got passed over for playing softball, it made me a little upset, but they just don't know what they were missing.)
Not really much else to report on...lots of training and packing going on, its gonna be busy for the next 2 months, but hopefully not as busy as it was the last 2 months!
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