leaving friday

i'm leaving friday morning! i finally got the official word. after all this time. although it is april fool's day, so i wouldn't be surprised if they still don't know when we're leaving and they're just telling us that we're leaving friday as an april fool's prank...

but if it for real, then the plan is that we're leaving friday morning, and we have a two hour layover in kansas and a two hour layover in ireland. then we will land in kuwait. after a few days or so i'll go to al-asad, and i also found out that i will be doing the same thing i was doing last time i was in iraq, which is maintenance management. an important note: maintenance management is an office/computer type job where i make reports and hold meetings. not to be confused with maintenance, which is turning wrenches and fixing trucks/radios/weapons... i'll be in charge of the administrative aspects of corrective/preventative maintenance, and calibrations and inventories, and reconciliation with reports listing statuses on ordered parts and so on... for every single piece of gear that our battalion owns. which will be a lot of gear.

so until friday i'm just wondering around 29 palms with nothing to do. my ankle is still injured pretty bad. too bad to run. i'll get it checked when i get to iraq. remember, i hurt it during that pepper spray training, and that was over 6 weeks ago. the doc didn't give me any x-rays, but it is not the slightest bit healed, so i'm thinking it may be more serious than a sprain.