Four more years! Four more years! Wait, wrong slogan. Sorry about that. I mean, four more months! Four more months!
Well, it looks like we have extended period of fun and will be going into extra innings. Our unit is one of the ones that are being extended in theater, so we get to stay another 125 days here in country. Of all the brigades in theater, ours is the only National Guard brigade, and the only full brigade extended. There are some are some Marine battalions that are also extended, but they are only looking at 60 to 90 days of extra time. Not us. We’re in it to win it. In for the long haul.
Actually, if we are here any longer, it will be a permanent change of station for us. I should start looking into housing costs for the local villages. Something nice I could move my family into. It seems like that is the only way I am going to see them again. That or wait for Representative Rangel’s proposed bill to draft men and women up to the age of 42 pass the legislature, have my wife drafted, and maybe see if she can be sent here for a tour. Work with me, folks; we’re going to have to get creative with this.
So, leaving aside any discussion about whether or not the surge will work, I’ll stick to how we came to find out. The same way as the rest of the world: by Yahoo News.
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