and so it begins...

Current local time in Kyrgyzstan is 0919 (9:19am for all you non-military folks). 72 degrees and sunny. So far deployment feels kinda like a vacation. We're here waiting for our connecting flight to Afghanistan. While we wait, we don't really have anything we need to be doing, so I'm spending most of my time getting this blog up and running. Today all I really have to do is show up to formation at 0800, 1400, and 2100. Besides that, I'm on my time.

I'll try to catch you guy's up. I don't remember all the details, but Thursday night is when it started. Everyone brought all there luggage down from their rooms and staged it and  prepped for a brief goodbye to family and friends.

The trucks rumbled up to the barracks and we loaded all of our luggage on to them. After we had all the gear loaded up on to the trucks we hopped on the bus and headed to the armory to pick up our rifles. After we got our rifles we headed over to the tarmac. 

That's all I have time for now. Lots more to come.