Last Night of Vacation

Well, this is it, my last night in Iraq. Although I won't leave here until tomorrow nite, I am considering this my last night. I will be up tomorrow at 0830 and probably not go to sleep until I get to Phoenix at 4:45pm Sat afternoon. I'm flying Northwest Airlines from Frankfurt Germany Saturday morning and stop in Detroit, change planes and then on to Phoenix. I had a great send off here tonite with all of the new people that just got here and we laughed like we were on a Southwest overnite. The general here is absolutely one of the best commanders I've ever worked for. He is direct, fun, motivated and has complete situational awareness on everything. It reminds me of the commanders I had in Oklahoma in the reserves. This general loves to get down to the business of fighting the enemy and keeping them from ever thinking about bringing the fight to us in the US. We need to continue to do what we can to ensure these evil doers do not bring this terrorism back to our land ever again. And just so you know, we are fighting them really well here and are making sure they don't have a chance to run away. We are fighting the good fight here and you can be proud of the men and women that are doing our countries business over here. I'm not talking about me, but the young men and women where the rubber meets the road. That's the tough part but we are doing it in an awesome manner. I'm glad to have been a small part of this. I have a sense of accomplishment, something good not only for me personally, or for the Iraqi people, but for what we have done to ensure our nation's security and freedoms we all enjoy. Thanks for the ride folks, it has been fun writing in this blog. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I have enjoyed re-living my experiences during this Vacation In Iraq. That is really that.