Well lets see, today is Monday January 6th and its been a long day. Not much work but I did sit through pre deployment briefs all day and also got to meet my stafff non commisioned officer in charge (SNCOIC) for my deployment. Her name is Gunnery Sergeant Fulgencio and I love her attitude. She used to be a drill instructor, so her myself and six other female marines had some fun times sharing stories today at chow.
I checked into my new unit MWHS-3 in Miramar, California on Thursday and will be here until January 18th. On January 18th, we will flying out from the Air Force base into Kuwait where we will spend one night and then continue on a C130 to Al Asaad. We will be spending two days in Al Asaad doing weapons training and then hoping onto a helo and heading to Camp Korean Village (KV) for two days for ground fighting. From there we will take a convoy up to JBCC. Truthfully, I am not sure what JBCC stands for but if I took a guess I would say Joint Batallion Command Center. We will actually be gaudring three checkpoints near JBCC which is near Rupa village and the Syria boarder.
There is Corporal out here in Miramar who will be going with me who just returned from doing the lioness prgram four months ago and went to that same location. She had some crazy stories, some I will keep to myself and share all when I get back. To make you laugh a little at me I will tell you some things such as she said to expect an average of one shower a month, share a hooch (semant floor and walls) with all of us and it is about the size of my barracks room, We will be eating MRE's that convoys bring out to us from KV, but when we are hit with mortors and the convoys are unable to make it we will be eating Iraqi bread, cheese, and lamb.. MMMM!! We also use the bathroom in a bag and then burn it..
Out there we will be attatched with a grunt unit and the ratio of guys to girls is about 25::1. For those who don't know exactly what I will be doing or what the Lioness prgram is here it goes: I will be searching Iraqi women. Simple right? Well here are some horror stories.. lets just say we "credit card swipe" them (if you dont know what that is, ask around someone should) and those who are on the rag, well they don't use tampons or pads over there. We were told the number one thing to pack is gloves! They also get nervous and pee on you..
I think I will stop there because I know you are either laughing very hard at me or freaking out and neither is good, LOL. So wish me luck because its going to be one hell of an experience! See you in April!! LOVE YOU!!
