By now one of our companies that left Rusty three days ago should be home or at least close. E 1/125 is an infantry company that was attached to our MP Battalion because there are only so many MP’s in the world. They are Michigan National Guard, so even though they should be flying out of Kuwait any moment, they still have about a week of demobilization left before they get home back to their normal jobs and lives. Even if they are not quite home, every one of them is (wild guess alert) happy to be back in the states even if they are not looking forward to the family and job messes that I know some of them have. I overheard one of them say he would rather stay in Iraq than go back home, but no matter how tough your home situation is it is better to have family difficulties in the US than Iraq.
Four of their soldiers went home early. One was killed in September and three were killed two days before Christmas last year. It was a rough tour for them, but they did well. They had a bunch of quality guys, especially their comms sergeant SSG Bansimer and their intel liaison SPC Palmateer, who I’m going to miss.
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