Hello All,
Home on Rest and Relaxation Leave (R&R) for 2 weeks and just wanted to say hello to one and all and thank you for keeping the light on (Pasley Dive Report Thread) while I am gone. I will return to Iraq on May 6th and then I will have another 5-8 months (depending on if they decide to apply the 3 month extension to my type of unit, and our Commanding General is working on it.). So if all goes well, in October or November I will be home to stay.
I also want to say a special thanks to those wonderful folks at Dallas Airport. Their fire department met us with a water arch salute, and a crowd of people were in the terminal to carrying signs and waving hello and saying a simple "welcome home and thank you". They set up a 200 foot line on both sides to do so and greet every plane of returning troops, no mater what the hour. I only wish America had done the same in Vietnam. This gesture touched me and brought tears to my eyes.
Then on the way home from LAX, we stopped for lunch (traveling for 4 days tired and hungry) and an anonymous stranger paid our lunch bill on their way out. Totally unaware I was just off the plane from Iraq, just buying a lunch for a soldier in uniform and his family.
Well it is great to be home even if only for a few days. I do not believe I will be diving, but I may swing by a spot or two and give a shout out.
Home on Rest and Relaxation Leave (R&R) for 2 weeks and just wanted to say hello to one and all and thank you for keeping the light on (Pasley Dive Report Thread) while I am gone. I will return to Iraq on May 6th and then I will have another 5-8 months (depending on if they decide to apply the 3 month extension to my type of unit, and our Commanding General is working on it.). So if all goes well, in October or November I will be home to stay.
I also want to say a special thanks to those wonderful folks at Dallas Airport. Their fire department met us with a water arch salute, and a crowd of people were in the terminal to carrying signs and waving hello and saying a simple "welcome home and thank you". They set up a 200 foot line on both sides to do so and greet every plane of returning troops, no mater what the hour. I only wish America had done the same in Vietnam. This gesture touched me and brought tears to my eyes.
Then on the way home from LAX, we stopped for lunch (traveling for 4 days tired and hungry) and an anonymous stranger paid our lunch bill on their way out. Totally unaware I was just off the plane from Iraq, just buying a lunch for a soldier in uniform and his family.
Well it is great to be home even if only for a few days. I do not believe I will be diving, but I may swing by a spot or two and give a shout out.
