5 days and several obstacles later Kyle has finally arrived in Iraq. He had quite the trip getting from Kuwait to Iraq but is now all settled into his new living quarters. Unfortunately, our means of communication are not as readily available as we had been cautiously and optimistly hoping.
I don't feel like I could do the story justice and hopefully Kyle will be able to blog in the missing pieces but a quick recap. Kyle was told to pack up his belongings and hurry to the airfield only to sit in the belly of a C-17 with full, hot and heavy, body armour on for hours. The airplane was having maintenance problems. They finally let the men off the plane to sit on the runway. Kyle slept a few hours outside on the ground waiting to seeing if the plane was going to go out. When they decided it wasn't they set up in a tent for the next airplane. The next airplane arrived loaded them up and off they went. They were there about to land when the pilot announced that they would not be landed due to "something" being wrong. No runway flares maybe? They landed back in Kuwait and finally after 5 full days at the airfield the air force picked them up and flew them and landed them in Baghdad.
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