Saturday I Report To My Armory To Head Out

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Andemagne
remember to dodge those bullets and good luck.
is your unit part of the national guard? or what that "Guard" stands for?

Yeah it means National Guard. Each state has a National Guard and during times of war and emergency they can be called up by the Federal government to active duty. This has been happening more and more in the last few years.


Kramerman: I've been in for 11 years so I have plenty of drunken GI stories already including one about three guys relieving themselves outside a bar in Italy. One of which was an officer. Unfortunately we will most likely be going to Saudi Arabia where the only thing there is to drink is bottled water. Unless you count the occasional carepackage from our loved ones back home


I appreciate all the good will.

Oerdin: We have a few guys that have said they wanted to get back in if we went over. Have you heard any more about your chances of going back?

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by paiktis22
Be careful and good luck.

If you pass through Europe don't wear your uniform in public.

Yeah, I think its pretty standard that you dont wear your uniform anymore when traveling. We will most likely take a direct charted flight directly over there anyway so it will just be us. When my unit went to Saudi the last time they boarded the plane with the camo uniforms and M16s. That was a chartered civilian plane directly to Saudi though.

[Dinner]

Spraybar: My old unit has orders to report to the Armory on the 26th of this month. I actually called up the 1SG and volenteered to go but he told me the orders had already been cut. He said if I had volenteered a month ago I could have gotten in but now I'm just on the alternate list and the alternates never go.

I guess it's just as well because I just landed a new job and they probably would be pissed if I took off for a year to go play soldier in Iraq.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Spraybar: My old unit has orders to report to the Armory on the 26th of this month. I actually called up the 1SG and volenteered to go but he told me the orders had already been cut. He said if I had volenteered a month ago I could have gotten in but now I'm just on the alternate list and the alternates never go.

I guess it's just as well because I just landed a new job and they probably would be pissed if I took off for a year to go play soldier in Iraq.

Yeah I had just got offered a new job this week and accepted. Now I guess that wont be in the picture.

[HolyWarrior]

Public Service Announcement:

All liberals who ridiculed Dan Quayle for serving in the Indiana National Guard during Vietnam, your apologies are being accepted now.

[Tattila the Hun]

Hals und Beinbruch!

Try not to get killed.
And drink a lot of water.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Tattila the Hun
Hals und Beinbruch!

Try not to get killed.
And drink a lot of water.

Solid advice that I plan on investing a lot of time in pursuit of

[Dinner]

If you have a laptop you should take that too. Most of the time a high speed satilite data link is one of the first things to get installed on a new base. They also issued satilite phones to us in Kosovo and I know some people ( ) who used them to surf the net during the down time.

Lastly, get yourself a nice compact digital camera so you can e-mail picts home and post a few here at 'poly. Hopefully they'll have computers in the MWR tent.

[Sprayber]

Am I supposed to be poly's man on the spot or something?



My highschool graduation class had 74 people in it.
out of that (small town school)

My cousin is in Afghanistan with the Air Force
I have two friends aboard the USS Nimitz (one whose brother is on his way to Turkey)
Another friend in Germany who says he is getting ready to be deployed
Another friend in the UK that claims to be wanting to transfer.
Not to mention a friend (son of one of my Guard comrades) who is in Korea
And one female friend that is in some kind of support unit in Italy.

All that occurring before our ten year reunion in November.

Thats not including 50 or so guardsman from the town that is being sent. In a town of 2500 everyone knows someone there or about.

[Az]

Good luck, take care, and YES, drink lots of water.

[Stuie]

Originally posted by Sprayber
Am I supposed to be poly's man on the spot or something?

Take care over there!

[Pekka]

Sprayber, Stay safe and this will give some stories to tell to the grandkids some day!
Look after your buddies and make sure they got your back too and come back soon in one piece. How about switching IDs, so I'd get a shot at them?

Anyway, good luck, and remember what Patton said that it's not about dying for your country, it's about making the other guys die for their country

[Pekka]

Ande, and National Guard stands for Kansalliskaarti.

[boann]

Vaya con Dios
Te envio mis mas sinceros abrazos

[Pekka]

I follow boanns example:

Rautaa rajalle ja tulta munille perkele!

(traditional saying for hoping your safe and soon return)