Merry Christmas!
I hope that everyone is having a great holiday season.
The announcement was just made today that some of our fellow Screaming Eagles will be deploying shortly after us. Here is the announcement from Bloomberg:
Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The Pentagon today announced the deployment of 6,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan, the second wave in President Barack Obama’s planned surge of 30,000 troops.
The units include 3,400 troops from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Kentucky that will deploy in June 2010 and 2,600 personnel from various unspecified support units that will arrive in Afghanistan starting in late March, the Pentagon said.
The Pentagon announced the first wave of deployments on Dec. 7 -- 16,000 troops, including 1,500 Marines from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina who are arriving this month.
--I have some friends in the 2BCT so please be praying for their preparation.
--We are getting set to travel to the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) at Ft. Polk, LA to really focus our training and preparation for Afghanistan. However, before that we are enjoying some block leave to enjoy the holidays with family and friends--weather permitting. ;-)
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