Pre-Deployment

I have come to the realization that pre-deployment is not about the train up or the prep for deployment. It is about making you so desperate to deploy you don't care where you go as long as you get.

The last time I felt this way was when I was with 2-2 INF, 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division. We were sitting in Kuwait at a place known as Camp New York. Spent three weeks there standing in longer lines then anyone should have. When you are at the end of the chow line and you can just make out the mess hall you know it is a long line. Okay maybe a bit of exaggeration but not by much. Within a week or so of being there I was so ready to get up north into Iraq and combat. I did not think that there was anything that could get me to desire combat but Camp New York did that for me and so many more of us.

Don't get me wrong it I don't want to be away from my bride for a year but this pre-deployment, good idea fairies is going to drive me nuts.

The sad part of all this is I simply am trading one garrison enviroment for another. Which brings me to another thing about deploying. If I have to be away from my bride for a year give me a reason for her not to be there. Don't send me to a garrison in Kuwait.