Oh! Sweet Nuthin'...

Landing at Philadelphia I, and the dozen or so people traveling with me, had the false sense that we were heading to an Army base well within the bounds of "Urban America". Oh! My dear sweet, 8 pound 7 ounce, Baby Jesus nothing could be further from the truth!

There are more groundhogs here than active duty military. Groundhogs, woodchucks, Beavercats, Woodhogs, Groundchucks... You name it and we have it! We even passed some Wild Turkey's, deer, and sheep on the way to one of our training 'evolutions'. Now I don't know if the Army guys keep the animals around to keep them "company" while they are out in the field or what...? All I do know is that there is nothing to do on this base! Damn you Fort Dix!

The upside to things is that we are training about half the time, and I am pretty much on vacation. I mean who honestly needs to train or get prepared for a deployment to Iraq, the Cradle of Life, the hottest vacation spot on the planet...? Apparently, not me.

Needless to say, things here are rocking along a little more frustrating than anticipated. Of the 39 Sailors in my training group only 9 of us are active duty sailors. The remaining 30 sailors are all reservists who do not live this military life on a regular basis. This causes mucho frustration to those of us who are used to the rigors of day to day Navy life. And of course....Leave it to the Navy to leave the part timers in charge of us all.

Oh' well! Enough about that... Negativity is not what I need to be putting out right now. Regardless of my frustrations a lot of the training I am receiving is pertinent to my deployment, I just wish that there was more of it. I have met a lot of really good people and we are all trying to make the best of our situation.

With a little less than a month left in the states all I can do is try to relax and enjoy the time that I do have in the good ol' US of A! I will try and keep you guys up to date as to what is going on here and when I will be leaving for Kuwait.

I know several of you guys have asked so I will post it out here for you guys. Below you will find my mailing address while I am here at FT DIX. Please keep in mind that I will be leaving here somewhere around the 27th of September, so if you do send me something make sure that it can get here by then. With that said... I love receiving packages...male packages..Uh, I mean...Mail packages! Yeah, that's it!

So, without further adieu...

SK2 Aaron Webb
ECRC BLDG 6038
DOUGHBOY LOOP
FT DIX, NJ 08640-9001

Well, I am off to get some rest. Thanks for listening to my little rants and raves. Know that I am doing well and missing you all. Until we meet again....

Oh' wait! One last thing...

Happy Anniversary Mrs. Stacey Webb! 2 years and counting! I love you sweet girl!

And that's that...