Deployment Day
After a prayer by the unit Safety Officer for our safe return, we 
boarded the bus with three duffel bags apiece and braced ourselves for some grueling travel days. The trip began with a 14-hour bus ride to our departure airport, we then flew on a Boeing 777 for 13 hours to the Middle East, 
passing through 8 time zones…that means when you are watching the morning news, we are thinking about dinner. From there it was a 3-hour bus ride to our base camp in the middle of the desert. During the in-processing briefing, our ID cards were scanned (DEC 9th), which begins the official countdown of our year overseas. It was after 4 AM before we finally off loaded the truck carrying our gear, found our 
tent, set up cots and fell over.
boarded the bus with three duffel bags apiece and braced ourselves for some grueling travel days. The trip began with a 14-hour bus ride to our departure airport, we then flew on a Boeing 777 for 13 hours to the Middle East, 
passing through 8 time zones…that means when you are watching the morning news, we are thinking about dinner. From there it was a 3-hour bus ride to our base camp in the middle of the desert. During the in-processing briefing, our ID cards were scanned (DEC 9th), which begins the official countdown of our year overseas. It was after 4 AM before we finally off loaded the truck carrying our gear, found our 
tent, set up cots and fell over.
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