Well, it's August 5th, so Josh's unit has been in country now for 4 months. Of course, we had just under a month where Josh was not involved in the day to day business over there. Sometimes I still wish we had that time. I realized that after this weekend's action over there and Josh sending his "I'm fine" e-mail how hard it is to get back into that mindset of hearing that information or waiting for those e-mails from him.
Josh shared the following in an e-mail this morning . . .
"I know people are going to ask because they just extended those marines 30 days, but we have not heard anything about extending us. As far as I know, we are on time arrivals. Everyone needs to remember that the marines were just supposed to be a quick fix, there was not going to be anybody replacing them. They were supposed to come in clean it up and move on. Ithink they had to extend them b/c they no one in place to replace them. The news article and the rumors around here are saying that units expected to go to Iraq at the end of the year and the beginning of next year will be coming here instead. The illinois unit that is coming to replace us is bringing nearly three thousand troops ( i read it in a press release)."
I finally dropped off the camera disks to Walgreens today -- woohoo! I will be picking them up on my way home and posting them tonight!
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