Dear all,
I am comfortably nestled in a CHU, Central Housing Unit, or mini-trailer room, and have started flying missions over Iraq yesterday. We fly at 1000 ft above ground level and it's like flying over a larger version of the Indian Reservation. The land looks like the area between Phoenix and Yuma without any mountains. The Tigris River winds it's way down from Baghdad and provides irrigation for all the crops that have been established over the last 2000 or so years. It's very 3rd world, in spite of the incredible oil wealth. Most remarkable of all, the air is a dusty, hazy mess up to about 1500 ft, with pollution coming from dust and the very smokey brick factories that belch black smoke. Our EPA would be shutting them down left and right. When I get internet set up in my room, I'll send pictures. It's really shocking to me that a country that has been around this long, has made so little progress. What tyrants can do to a society!
Today, I'll just take my laundry to the cleaners, sort out the footlocker full of Safety publications (meaning throw out the paper version. I'll do everything on the computer.), and start going to the gym with 1LT Grandy. I need to be in shape the next time you see me or you'll think I was on vacation!
love, Chris
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Merry Christmas from all the Sloans and an early Happy New Year! We got to have Nate and J.B. both home at the same time briefly. Nate is now in Iowa visiting a friend (girl), and J.B. is heading back tomorrow to GT for the bowl game and moving to another room at the house. Thinking of you and keeping you and your family in our prayers--much love, Amy
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