Day 20

We're in Iraq now. It took long enough to get here, I guess there was a long line at the airport in Kuwait to get over here. We took the bus two days ago in the evening and they turned us back, told us to come the next day. So we did, and I guess with some pushing and shoving by the officers they let us on a C17 and flew us to camp Anaconda. We were there for about eight hours and then we loaded our gear on chinooks and flew across Baghdad to Camp Taji. We're set up in temporary barracks I guess you could call them, a bigass warehouse type thing with hundreds of cots. It rained today and yesterday so it's all muddy and I don't feel quite right. Baghdad is an hour ahead of Kuwait for some stupid reason. Not much more to report, things have been going slow and will continue to go slow until we get going on these missions. Even then I think it will be boring. There are a lot of activities to keep soldiers busy here, a pool, weights, internet, billiards and on and on. We'll be here for a long time so things will get established and I'll have a regular routine which will keep me busy. A lot of guys are into lifting weights. I'll just keep in shape the best I can and eat right. I'm gonna try to gain some weight like I did in basic, not much else to do here.