Arrived in Kuwait

We arrived in Kuwait late on the 19th. We had an hour bus ride from Ft Riley to Topeka to Forbes Field. There we boarded a 767 and headed out for Leipzig Germany. It was an 8 ½ hour flight. We had a two hour layover in Leipzig so that is where we had our last beer for a while. We then re-boarded the plane for the 4 ½ hour flight to Kuwait. Once in Kuwait we took a bus to Camp Virginia. There we were separated from the Marines who were on-board our flight and we waited for transportation to Camp Buehring. Once at Buehring, we got our in-brief, was assigned a tent, and bedded down for the rest of the night…it was 0400 at this time. Yesterday consisted of nothing but checking out Buehring and things like that. This place is wild…there are more restaurants here in the various food courts that I have seen in most major malls back home!!! Hell, they got three Starbucks coffee shops here. To be a "Fobbit" in Kuwait…what a tough life!!! Anyway, we have certain training that we have to complete while we are here before we head up to the Phoenix Academy in Taji Iraq. We do have access to phones and internet here so the evenings are pretty much up to us which is cool. The internet is kind of slow though, it is almost like being back on dial-up so it may take a little bit of time to get responses out to some of you, but I will eventually get to them all.