Friday, January 9, 2009

Packing for the Big Trip



This week I started stacking all of my Army eqiupment in the living room. This weekend I'll start packing a backpack, three duffle bags and a footlocker for training in the US, then on to Iraq. I have a five-page PowerPoint presentation that tells me what goes into each of the five bags. Then I will have to decide what books I will take with me and where they will go--three per bag and ten in the footlocker? Three in each bag and let my kids send me one every other week? How about running shoes. One set in my A bag that goes on the plane to stateside training, one extra pair in stuff that gos by truck, two more for Iraq? We'll see how everything fits.

3 comments:

  1. When will you know officially, January 20th?

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  2. If everything goes well, I should be a Go on Jan 20.

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  3. Fingers crossed for Jan 20 Neil. Belated New Year Greetings to you and yours.

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