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From lil’ bro:

Hello to All!
I would like to first thank you all for your prayers and support. It hasn’t been too tough so far, though the occasional mortar going off and the distant gunfire keeps things in perspective. I really appreciate the letters, postcards, and boxes you all have sent, it’s really a great spirit lifter to read about how everyone is doing back home. Thanks to the kindness of all the families of the marines on the MEU, I think we have enough sweets to last till Christmas, 2006… So, if anyone feels they need to send us something, toiletries would be most helpful. Little things like razors, AA batteries, to name a few. Oh, and we are always glad to have books, used are fine, as long as they aren’t missing the final few pages, which, I have found, can be a real letdown… lol!
I arrived in Iraq about a week and a half ago, flying in on a c-130. One of those fat cargo planes. They’re pretty loud, and not so comfy, and we were flying for about and hour, hour and a half, so I got myself some ear plugs. We didn’t get in till like 0200, so it was kinda late. Thats alright though, cause the big tent we’re staying in has beds instead of cots, so thats really nice. I would say we have about 40 ppl in our tent, give or take a few. Of course I didn’t get straight to work when I got here. I got to do some escort duty, flying with the Iraqy army guys back and forth from Abu Ghraib to here. we flew on a bunch of ch-46, the helicopters with the two main rotors. I’ll tell you what, if I thought that c-130 was loud, it was nothing compared to these birds, thats for sure. We flew out there a couple times, picking up the iraqies and then would fly back, sometimes we would spend a day out there waiting for the return flights. It wasn’t too bad. Unfortunately those 46’s can only carry so many people, so we were making a lot of flights. On one of the trips we got to fly on a ch-53 I think it was. those are some big choppers, and they can fit about 3 times as many on them as the 46’s, so we liked those birds a lot more. All in all, it was pretty fun, got shot at a couple of times, though we were flying at night the whole time, so you see these tracers go wizzing past.
All in all, its been pretty interesting, though I’ve been here only a week and a half. There are a lot of good people out here, and I have also got to talk with several Iraqies while we escorted them around on the choppers. So far, they seem to be rather nice people. Hopefully we’ll be able to get, if not all, most of the terrorists out here so that they can live in peace.
I pray you all are doing well. Your continued prayers and letters are much appreciated. Don’t know really how long we’ll be out here, so if you could pray for us as we do the job were sent here to do. Pray that the Lord keeps us safe while we work, and that He keeps all the families back home safe and well so we can concentrate on what we have to do here. May God bless and kepp you all, you are in my prayers,

I wish I could be over there with him… As it is, I’ll be working on some of those essentials that they need to make it easier to whack the bad guys.

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