Man… Just a few short months to go until we are done with this…
Won’t be too much longer before I pen what might be the final entry on this blog, the one titled “Lessons Learned…”
We’re still here, in Iraq, doing the job, haven’t lost anyone ot enemy action, and I pray that it continues, that we bring everybody home (except for the ones who went back early, and most of them will be waiting for us at the drill hall).
As for me, this deployment looks like it has done all that I had expected… It has prepared me to lay down the rifle with grace and on my own terms. It has been the last Great Adventure for Sergeant B., perhaps a little anti-climactic, as the days of charging into the face of the enemy by a 40-something infantryman are long gone, and the battle seems to have shifted over to the ‘Stan.
But before It Ends, there’s a huge chunk of good news, in that I will be afforded the opportunity to take leave from this place, recharge the batteries for the final push…
Summer in Washington…
I’ll let you know when the party is.
