From New Jersey to Kuwait

My goal for this posting is to include a lot more pictures.  These pictures will highlight my time traveling from Fort Dix, NJ to Kuwait.  Some of these pictures represent the "inside" look into what it takes to get to the Middle East for a Soldier. 

 loading up to get ready.  This pic is a little staged.....

 This was only the duffel bags.  On the other wall are all the ruck sacks and personal bags

 At the airport waiting to check in.  Originally we were told that the flight was over booked and we may have to wait another week to fly.  Luckily that was not the case. 

 Sitting in the terminal waiting a military flight.  It really felt like the deployment was actually going to happen. 

 On the plane. 

 Sitting in Germany. Really tired at this moment.  We had been flying all night with no real food to eat. 

 We landed in Kuwait and had to sit on 100 degree heat from about 9pm to 1am to then leave for our base. 

 4am at our base.  We had a briefing and then unloaded our gear just to load it on another truck to go to another base.  No sleep yet.  But at least it was more like 90 degrees at this moment. 

Home sweet home???  In a large tent with 25 other guys.  At least the air conditioning got the room down to 80 degrees.