News from Iraq... err kinda

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tired007

First time out of the vault
Well,
I finally had time to put together a website for my wife in Iraq. It's not flashy or fancy and welll... probably has many spelling errors and looks kinda hokie, but it's main purpose is for family and friends and people to get news on her and general info from a soldiers perspective.
I posted a while back that I was going to put it up for anyone interested to so here it is. It would have been up sooner but I spent the last couple of week doing some serious housework and reorganizing. You wouldn't BELIEVE the stuff you can find when you start digiging though old boxes.
Anyway... Here's the site http://iraq.rohwerselken.com

Thanks

Greg
 
I found a stereo with a cool built in amplifier and great sound digging in some boxes in my garage yesterday so yeah, i believe you :).

Great pics, i`ll keep an eye on the site, i hope she comes back soon.
 
Man, I admire you for keeping more or less sane while your wife's deployed in the military, serving in Iraq.

Nonetheless, If I had the choice of two evils, I'd much rather be deployed, and risk *my* life to keep the wife at home. I'm very sorry to point this out, but I wouldn't have the psychical strength to leave my girl for more than two months, especially in such a hazardous place.

All to all, not tuning this into a politcal nor ethical debate about DBW, you're pretty brave to let your wife go to war.
Personally, I wouldn't stand such a burden.
 
Wooz69 said:
All to all, not tuning this into a politcal nor ethical debate about DBW, you're pretty brave to let your wife go to war.
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Am I the only one who sees irony here?
 
If I had a choice

If I had a choice, I would gladly have taken her place but my contract was up in 2001 and I opted not to reup. After nine years, I thought it was time to move on. Unfortunalty, her contract is still in effect for a couple of years.
You wouldn't believe how hard it is sometimes. especially being ex-military myself. Not only is my wife over there, but also alot of our close friends and relatives are serving in Iraq and Afhganistan. When your part of the military your part of a large family and when time like this come along you see alot of that family ship out.
I've contemplated several times getting back in becaues a friend in the Hosp unit I was in told me that they are seeking to either activate 70+ 91m (My old mos) or reclassifying soldiers to fill those slots. If I reupped than it would garantee I would probably be going over to the sandbox, but then I started thinking. My wife has enough to worry about trying to do her job, why worry about me being over there too. That would cause way too much stress for both her and my family. Not even thinking about other things it may effect, our home businesses, my education, our cats :-)
Thanks to all of your guys concerns. I'll be sure to keep the website up to date as much as possible.

Thanks again

Greg
 
Greg -

Let us know if there's anything we can do to help, letters, care packages etc, I'm sure she's getting her fill from you and the rest of the family, but if there's something we can do to help the others in the unit, let us know.
 
Exactly Pope, if you want us to, I'm sure that a number of NMA members could send something out there (perhaps something big if we banded together).
 
I don't think she needs anything right now

Thank you guys for your support and understanding. I think as far as supplies go, she is pretty well stocked. Both her family and mine all have memberships at Sams club and make regular visits there.
One of the things I think she does need are letters or rather emails of support or just general chit chat. If you want, you can go to the contact page on the website and email her a letter letting her know that there are people out there that support her, maybe not the war, but atleast the troops. She may also know of soldiers that may not have it the same as she does and could use your support.
Anyway, thanks again and if you do email her, maybe you can explain to her why it is perfectly sane to play a game Like fallout 2 till 3 am

:D

Talk to you all later,

Greg
 
Talk about bad month

Well, I just updated the website with a few more pictures and another news letter. I also wanted to thank you guys for sending her emails of support. She really appriciated them and really needs them at a time like this.
I've been pretty much absent recenlty because I just found out my call center is closing on April 1st 2005. I almost thought it was a joke when I heard it. Who lays off 450+ people on April Fools day? Anyway, I kinda figured that it was going to close sometime, with half the building being empty so I planned well ahead by establishing my own business and leaving it on the back burner till the winds of change finally arrived. Looks like they finally blew in and I've spent the last month organizeing and getting contracts written and set up, equipment ordered. Still have to get the websites polished up though

:)
Well, Karol was really unhappy with the news, no sooner will she be coming back than I will be getting kicked out the door. This should be fun though. They are giving us 12+ weeks in our severance package so I think I'll spend the fist month going to school and fishing. I don't think she likes that plan but I'm looking forward to it.
I guess Thats about it. I just wanted to give you all an update since it's been a while and take a look at the website's new pics and tell me what you think. I would have more to post but being absent minded I shipped back to her the picture CD that I had from the laptop she sent back without making a copy. DUH (Smacks head).
Again thanks for the support and emails.

Greg
 
Ratty said:
Wooz69 said:
All to all, not tuning this into a politcal nor ethical debate about DBW, you're pretty brave to let your wife go to war.
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Am I the only one who sees irony here?
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ROFL... It's damn good way have to get rid of wife and also, get some more money :twisted: Wicked husband, hehe... :twisted:
 
Well I must admit

While I wasn't happy she went. I was glad to be able to smoke in the house for a while, when she deployed. (By the way if anyone tells her that I was smoking in the house, I will deny it faster than Interplay saying the checks in the mail).

But that lasted about 2 days. Now it's gotten to the point of being very old. No one to fish with, no one to tell I'm dressing like a goober, no one to tell me to get off my lazy butt mow the yard, no one to flush the toilet on when they are in the shower. It's all kinda of a downer. Now where did I put those cigarettes?
 
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