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This place is a total dump. I am up in Tikrit at Camp Speicher. We are staying in what looks like a an oompaloompa crackhouse. It was an old barracks, I’d guess. They knocked holes in the walls every ten feet to make doors, but didn’t make any windows. So we are in a rectanglar room with plywood walls, two beds and a wall locker between us. It’s so far to theporta shitters that we just open the door and piss into the dirt outside.

We got to see a water plant this morning. I’ll make a little video that shows how the contractors make bottled water. Sesame Street style.

I have finaly found somebody that is my match for knapping. I’l be talking to Erik over the wall lockers and after a little bit he stops responding… I look around the corner and he’s asleep. Pretty funny. The sun here saps your energy pretty quick.

We are looking to roll out of Iraq tonight and head for Kuwait. Then we’ll beg our way onto a flight for Afghanistan. Heh- beg for a flight to ANOTHER war zone… am I fucked in the head or what?

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By rob
April 26, 2007

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  1. Liz said
    on April 26, 2007

    Hope you get this before you leave
    look up Msgt Christopher LaValley
    732nd ESFS Det 6
    97th MP Command
    COB Speicher
    his girlfriend Carolyn B. teaches with me at Mullen Hall School
    small world he just arrived a few days ago
    keep writing so we can know where you are
    stay safe and be careful
    we love you
    Liz and Ed

  2. Marsha curtis said
    on April 26, 2007

    Rob

    Nice language

    Mother

  3. Warren said
    on April 27, 2007

    I echo your mother’s sentiments. Mazel on the contract, now get your ass home.

  4. Em said
    on April 29, 2007

    It’s a great thing your doing over there, giving families a chance to see a glimpse of their loved ones in such a terrifying place, just to know they are OK. Also, you are giving the citizens of this great nation a reminder of the hundreds of thousands of our brothers and sisters that are over there defending our home and helping others not thinking of their own self, while we sit at home sipping tea. I think we can all be a little more flexible about the occasional language slip considering the stress your under.
    Thank you again, please keep us connected.
    -Em