Update #5 - November 5th, 2005
Hello from Kuwait "Club Med"
This place is unbelievable! We have almost everything we need here. This is the Hilton compared to FOB Tiger, NJ. too bad our stay here is short. Chow hall with food better than i've ever eaten in the military. Subway shop, Movie theatre, dance club, libary and lots of other luxuries. Beautiful landscape (if you like sand) and everyday is summer. They also make sure we have plenty of water bottles so we don't dehydrate. Nice!
Plane ride
This is funny enough to mention.... Hello passengers, we're on our way to Kuwait with a layover in Ireland (no drinking) :(. Please place your seats on the upright position with your tray up. All personal items under the seat in front of you..." This is the best part, "...place your weapons flat on the floor with the mussel facing out." I have to say this was a first for me. When we landed in Kuwait, tensions were high. I was selected as one of the security pesonal for my bus on our convoy to camp about 1hr away. That entire trip I had my eyes on the bus driver and even though I hadn't slept in a while, I don't remember blinking once. Kuwait is not considered a hostile zone but I felt the sweat running down my face as I white-knuckled the 30 round magazine on my weapon. The order was to shoot to stop anything that tried to derail our convoy to camp. No warning shots! Believe you me, I was awake. Once we got to camp things slowed down a little and we started our R&R. I'm safe and in good health.
I guess this is all from Kuwait... Next stop (e-mail), somewhere in Iraq. Tell you where that is when I come back
Thank you everyone for your support,
SGT Santana, Alexandre C. 3168
Bco 181 Engineers
APO-AE09342
The above is my new address as typed.
This place is unbelievable! We have almost everything we need here. This is the Hilton compared to FOB Tiger, NJ. too bad our stay here is short. Chow hall with food better than i've ever eaten in the military. Subway shop, Movie theatre, dance club, libary and lots of other luxuries. Beautiful landscape (if you like sand) and everyday is summer. They also make sure we have plenty of water bottles so we don't dehydrate. Nice!
Plane ride
This is funny enough to mention.... Hello passengers, we're on our way to Kuwait with a layover in Ireland (no drinking) :(. Please place your seats on the upright position with your tray up. All personal items under the seat in front of you..." This is the best part, "...place your weapons flat on the floor with the mussel facing out." I have to say this was a first for me. When we landed in Kuwait, tensions were high. I was selected as one of the security pesonal for my bus on our convoy to camp about 1hr away. That entire trip I had my eyes on the bus driver and even though I hadn't slept in a while, I don't remember blinking once. Kuwait is not considered a hostile zone but I felt the sweat running down my face as I white-knuckled the 30 round magazine on my weapon. The order was to shoot to stop anything that tried to derail our convoy to camp. No warning shots! Believe you me, I was awake. Once we got to camp things slowed down a little and we started our R&R. I'm safe and in good health.
I guess this is all from Kuwait... Next stop (e-mail), somewhere in Iraq. Tell you where that is when I come back
Thank you everyone for your support,
SGT Santana, Alexandre C. 3168
Bco 181 Engineers
APO-AE09342
The above is my new address as typed.
posted by Alexandre Santana at 8:31 AM
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