From about 5-6 days ago:
Well, time to chalk up another experience I'd rather not replicate ever again. We spent about 15 hours driving from Mosul to outside of Baghdad. The smell emanating from my body afterwards was far from pleasant. Sitting in a drivers hole for 13 straight hours when its 105 degrees is not conducive to smelling good. The aggravating part is that it shouldn't even have taken that long, but ol Murphy is a motherfucker.
Other than that things are going great. Our platoon got attached to another infantry company in our brigade and we are totally independent from our troop and squadron. Needless to say, I'm pretty happy with the way that worked out. Hopefully, that'll be for the remainder of our time here, but that would be too good to be true.
The only bad part is that the infantry guys just got here and we'll probaly have to wait a couple weeks while they do their right seat rides and take over their AOR. After that we're supposed to be getting into it pretty thick. I just wish I knew what exactly that entailed.
I haven't seen much of Baghdad yet, but its definitely a lot different than I expected. The countryside is a lot more green than I expected. There are trees and fields everywhere. I used to wonder how this place was the “cradle of civilization” but I can see it now. The camp they have us on is huge, theres at least a whole division here and it's hooked up pretty sweet like; it's definitely better than anything we had at Lewis.
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