So here I am at the end of week two of Operation Enduring Freedom! Here is what my room looked like when we arrived here. And with a couple little things moved around and some sheets, I now call it home! i know the walls look a little bare right now, but I'm still waiting for Whitney to send me a couple bikini posters of herself to hang on the walls. LOL. I could only wish for that, because it will never come true. I am pretty sure that if you google US Prison system, the rooms that will come up look very similar to this (just saying!)

So here is the sart of our clinic that we are setting up. Its still not quite done, but it keeps getting closer and closer. When we first found this room it was a big empty room with a single magazine rack. So after pillaging thru the barracks we found some extra stand alone closets. But the thing was they didn't have enough shelve space. So what do the 2 Special Forces doctors do. They go to home depot and build their own!

So now its time to go get all of our new MultiCam gear. So we brought 2 duffle bags full of gear, and the first week we are here, they give us another 2 duffle bags plus a back pack, and a big ruck sack! And I hate to say it but "I look pretty good in this picture"

  

So we have a clinic at the barrcks where most of the soldiers come in for Sick Call (Basically the military verision of Insta Care). Then we also have a medic at the airfield during flight operations. I don't have a picture of that office yet. But I do have this cool one. When I look out the window of that office this is the view that I have. It is pretty cool to watch our mechanics tare one of these apart in a matter of hours!!!!

In the past two weeks it has kind of been slow go. We really don't know what we are doing the next day until about 10:00-11:00 pm the night before. There has been a lot of sitting around for now. Everyone is still getting into there grove of things. Pretty soon the medics are going to be doing rounds at the big hospital here on base. I hope to get a lot of knowledge from that to help me in my career. One thing that has helped me to pass time is reading. And if anyone truly knows me they probably know that I hate reading. I haven't read a book since.......... Well high school, and even then I didn't even really read the full book! But since I started dating Whitney, she has got me into reading books. It started out with her just reading to me. She read two full books to me while driving to Arizona, and I've kind of been hooked since. So with me gone, Whitney had me take her Kindle (or should I say I tactfully acquired it.) So now with me gone I can read. And Whitney has been recording chapters at a time and sending them to my phone. So it is as if she is still by my side reading. I love her to death, and wouldn’t trade her for anything. “Thanks for getting me to read babe!”

This is 1 book down! And who knows how many more to come on this deployment.

The REAL DEAL Deployment!........ I think!

       I know that most people like to post mainly pictures to their blogs and I want to do the same. But I thought I owe everybody and explanation of what has been going on, and why I disappeared for awhile. Well the day finally came true! We all thought it might not happen…….. Again! But this time it is for real! When I found out I was getting deployed the second time, I kind of shrugged it off and said “I’ll believe it when I see it!” Well I know see it and I am one week done with my (hopefully)  12 month long deployment! I’m sorry for those of you that were following this the first time. You probably thought I had fallen off the face of the earth. I will give you a little insight of what happened the first time. We were told we were getting deployed to Iraq starting in September. Actually the first day of our deployment was to start on my Birthday! So 2 months prior to deployment we had to get up to date on training. So we all had to leave our full time civilian jobs and go full time active duty. We did training in Idaho, and also airport #2, and Camp Williams. So about 2 weeks before we were supposed to be deployed I was in my hand to hand combat training (and I was the best of course). And our commander came in and told us we have an emergency meeting. The whole way there I was thinking they were going to announce we were changing locations and going to Afghanistan. But I was way off! They told us it was cancelled all together, and to go home. All of us were planning on not going home for the next year! A lot of our unit was left without a place to go. Most of which either got out of their leases, or put their houses up for rent! Me being one of them! So 2 days after that they had a town hall meeting with all of us and a 2 star general was there from Washington D.C. to tell us sorry for the inconvenience. He also said that they were going to put us back on the deployment list, so expect to be home for a minimum of a year before being activated again. So two months later I bought a new car and a new phone, and of course right on queue I get a phone call saying we are being activated and I start full time again in 2 weeks!!!!! 

  

So after a month or so on active duty my deployment started on the 15^th January 2012! So story number two starts here!

So Saying good bye to everyone was super rough for me! I tried being Mr. Tough guy! But I think we all know that deep down under all the layers of super toughness there is a sensitive side. I think my face had a leak by my eyes this day! They leaked for hours this day! 

I know that Whitney and I haven't been together that long, but it was one of the hardest things goodbye to her! 

Then after the tears were starting to dry up we stoped at the airport where we got to hang around in a hanger for half the day. I started to read a book. The first book in awhile, and when I say ahwile I mean almost 10+ years! Whitney has got me reading. I never really enjoyed it unitll she read me a couple books, and we read one together. I secretly thinks she thinks I don't know how to read :)

And here I go to get on the plane to take me away from utah.