13 days remain.
Operation: Victory! is still a go!!
finally got my rank up! E-5 all the way. more money...always good.
last port now: Rota, Spain. hot as hell here.
Friday, June 27
Tuesday, June 17
last minute port call! our captain thought we needed some time off, so he pushed and shoved and begged to the higher ups for a port.
he got it!
Haifa, Israel. looks nice. got a tour in a couple days; Jerusalum.
also got my ESWS pin the other day!! now im OS2(SW) !!
pretty sweet.
less and less time until Operation: Victory!
he got it!
Haifa, Israel. looks nice. got a tour in a couple days; Jerusalum.
also got my ESWS pin the other day!! now im OS2(SW) !!
pretty sweet.
less and less time until Operation: Victory!
Tuesday, June 3
well, back in Souda Bay for the third time!
a lot has happened since the last time i wrote.
we hit Rhodes, Greece for a few days. that was pretty neat. took an all day tour of the upper island; great shots!
we then transited the Suez Canal and made our way to the Gulf of Oman to do some counter-drug ops. we were there for not even two days when Hezbollah started fighting in Lebanon again. so we got called up for standby relief efforts. we had to go back through the Canal (which takes almost 17 hours) and made our way to Beruit. we sat outside Leb for three weeks. nothing happened. it was quite boring. so then we got tasked to head down to the Suez entrance and wait for some cargo ship suspected of trafficing peoples. we found it, and our VBSS team was all ready to board her and search it out, but we got the "stand down" from the higher ups and called it all off. go figure. what little action we could have seen was crushed.
anyway so we are now back in Souda Bay for another port visit. the crew jokingly says this is our new home port we've been here so many times.
basically this deployment is the most unplanned thing so far. no one knows what we will be tasked to do the next day. everytime im on watch i pray for the "return home making best speed" message to show up. the only great thing is im banking a load of money!
Operation: Victory! will start upon arrival. theres a family reunion in SC, so ill head down there, meet up with the fam, hang out, and drive back with them. itll be awesome. finally a summer at home!
a lot has happened since the last time i wrote.
we hit Rhodes, Greece for a few days. that was pretty neat. took an all day tour of the upper island; great shots!
we then transited the Suez Canal and made our way to the Gulf of Oman to do some counter-drug ops. we were there for not even two days when Hezbollah started fighting in Lebanon again. so we got called up for standby relief efforts. we had to go back through the Canal (which takes almost 17 hours) and made our way to Beruit. we sat outside Leb for three weeks. nothing happened. it was quite boring. so then we got tasked to head down to the Suez entrance and wait for some cargo ship suspected of trafficing peoples. we found it, and our VBSS team was all ready to board her and search it out, but we got the "stand down" from the higher ups and called it all off. go figure. what little action we could have seen was crushed.
anyway so we are now back in Souda Bay for another port visit. the crew jokingly says this is our new home port we've been here so many times.
basically this deployment is the most unplanned thing so far. no one knows what we will be tasked to do the next day. everytime im on watch i pray for the "return home making best speed" message to show up. the only great thing is im banking a load of money!
Operation: Victory! will start upon arrival. theres a family reunion in SC, so ill head down there, meet up with the fam, hang out, and drive back with them. itll be awesome. finally a summer at home!
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