Salutations all. We'll I left Norfolk three months ago, normally this would be the halfway mark for a normal underway deployment. We will see what the next few weeks brings in regards to a return date (crossed fingers).



It is still the same ole stuff, different day around
here. i have been pursueing some side projects to help fill my days. One is getting a SATCOM (Satelitte Communications) voice circuit setup for our EOD teams that are WAAAAY out in the boonies. Another is trying to establish a standard for EOD response vehicle communications. I was able to order some goodies to install in a cougar which is an awesome vehicle considering the
IED rich environment we are in here in Iraq.


Here I am setting up a SATCOM antenna.













I am down to four personnel including myself here in the N6 shop. I have one TDY to Baghdad and I had to send one home on emergency leave (mother in-law died). So we are now down to the are minimum to support the Battalions Communications and Computer needs on a 24/7 basis. We have some more generator mainitenance coming up so hopefully we will not have any problems when we bring our system back up this time (MORE crossed fingers).

I have finally climatized to the latest temperature drops here, it is about 42 degrees in the morning and gets into the low 60's in the afternoon's. Currently it is 49 degrees at midnight and I laughed when Robyn offered to send me some longjohns after I had first got here............

Thank you all again for the packages/cards/emails (especially the funnies).

Squidly out (that Chris guy)