Greetings from Kuwait
Greetings from Kuwait where the camels ans sheep do roam. (I've seen
them). We have been doing some training and we are still trying to get use to 80 degrees at 7AM and a very bright sun. I really like seeing the sun rises here. They are very wonderful to look at. Of course at 5:30 in the morning thats about all there is to see on the way to breakfast. Also if you don't wear sunglass here you simply don't see.
It also rained here, which I didn't expect. Some neat (and not so neat) things that have happened while we have been here. While at a range to shoot our weapons we saw a heard of camels. I took a picture but it didn't turn out very good so I will have to get some pics from some of the other guys. We also saw a heard of sheep on the way back from the range.
Our sergeant wasn't please that some of us, myself included, didn't make it on the same firing order he was on so he "grounded" us to the tent the other night. That was actually good because a wicked sandstorm, one thing that I did expect to see, blew through when we would have been out. We cracked the door (yes our tent has doors, not flaps. It has AC too.) to see how bad it was and all we could see was sand. We couldn't see ten feet down the way to the other tent. It was like a blizzard of sand. It also rained very hard after the sandstorm subsided. It was hard to tell when one ended and the other started.
The base we are at is a lot nice. I expected, which was a lot of sand, some crappy tents, and not much else. I was very surprised. There is a
huge gym, some basketball courts, vollyball courts and three chow halls. One
is open from midnight to 3AM incase you didn't get stuffed like a king the
other three meals. The food is as good as it was on active duty only there
is more of it to eat.
There are three Post Exchanges(like a Target geared towards the military), two coffee shops and a few fast food joints.
There are alot of phones and I have talked to my love a few times since I got here. I learned that using calling cards instead of my credit card was a lot chaeper. Expensive lesson learned.
There are also a few internet cafe's which are all independent. What I mean
is that the card I buy from one place can not be used at any other cafe. I
didn't realize that I had purchased over three hundred minutes of internet time. Good thing I have so many emails to write.
I also lost a fight with my ipod the other day. I ended up deleting some of the sermons by James McDonald I listen to. I was getting frustrated with my ipod because it erased its self and it would not upload wheat I wanted it too. (all of which are operator errors. Stupid ipod). Lesson learned - don't go happy with the delete button.
Have any of you ever listened to The Stand To Reason radio show hosted by Greg Kokal's? (www.str.org) I downloaded six "podcasts" for my ipod, they are just archived shows. I listened to one the other night and he was talking about visions and miraculous healings that are happening in China, Africa and in other Muslim nations. People are coming to faith in Christ by these different miracals and visions. If you get a chance to listen to an archived show it was Good Question Bad Answer from Febuary. It was in the later hour of the show.
Well I better get going as I have to check in every two hours for accountability and to make sure no one wanders to far off in the desert.
Talk to you soon. Hopefully I can update you more often on how things are going for me.
them). We have been doing some training and we are still trying to get use to 80 degrees at 7AM and a very bright sun. I really like seeing the sun rises here. They are very wonderful to look at. Of course at 5:30 in the morning thats about all there is to see on the way to breakfast. Also if you don't wear sunglass here you simply don't see.
It also rained here, which I didn't expect. Some neat (and not so neat) things that have happened while we have been here. While at a range to shoot our weapons we saw a heard of camels. I took a picture but it didn't turn out very good so I will have to get some pics from some of the other guys. We also saw a heard of sheep on the way back from the range.
Our sergeant wasn't please that some of us, myself included, didn't make it on the same firing order he was on so he "grounded" us to the tent the other night. That was actually good because a wicked sandstorm, one thing that I did expect to see, blew through when we would have been out. We cracked the door (yes our tent has doors, not flaps. It has AC too.) to see how bad it was and all we could see was sand. We couldn't see ten feet down the way to the other tent. It was like a blizzard of sand. It also rained very hard after the sandstorm subsided. It was hard to tell when one ended and the other started.
The base we are at is a lot nice. I expected, which was a lot of sand, some crappy tents, and not much else. I was very surprised. There is a
huge gym, some basketball courts, vollyball courts and three chow halls. One
is open from midnight to 3AM incase you didn't get stuffed like a king the
other three meals. The food is as good as it was on active duty only there
is more of it to eat.
There are three Post Exchanges(like a Target geared towards the military), two coffee shops and a few fast food joints.
There are alot of phones and I have talked to my love a few times since I got here. I learned that using calling cards instead of my credit card was a lot chaeper. Expensive lesson learned.
There are also a few internet cafe's which are all independent. What I mean
is that the card I buy from one place can not be used at any other cafe. I
didn't realize that I had purchased over three hundred minutes of internet time. Good thing I have so many emails to write.
I also lost a fight with my ipod the other day. I ended up deleting some of the sermons by James McDonald I listen to. I was getting frustrated with my ipod because it erased its self and it would not upload wheat I wanted it too. (all of which are operator errors. Stupid ipod). Lesson learned - don't go happy with the delete button.
Have any of you ever listened to The Stand To Reason radio show hosted by Greg Kokal's? (www.str.org) I downloaded six "podcasts" for my ipod, they are just archived shows. I listened to one the other night and he was talking about visions and miraculous healings that are happening in China, Africa and in other Muslim nations. People are coming to faith in Christ by these different miracals and visions. If you get a chance to listen to an archived show it was Good Question Bad Answer from Febuary. It was in the later hour of the show.
Well I better get going as I have to check in every two hours for accountability and to make sure no one wanders to far off in the desert.
Talk to you soon. Hopefully I can update you more often on how things are going for me.
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