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Yesterday was the last day of my vacation so I had to head into work today. The past 11 days have been pretty relaxing and easy. I got to basically do nothing and play enough Wii to last me the six months I’ll be gone.

During my time off, I received an email from work (my work mail gets forwarded to my GMail) asking for ten Marines for a working party. The working party is for loading the gear of the Marines leaving to Iraq onto the plane on a certain day. I found that day kind of strange as it would put us leaving before New Years. I didn’t think much about the email again.

I get to work today expecting to confirm my suspicions of when we were going to leave. In the formation we had today the first thing out of the Master Sergeant’s mouth was “hope you didn’t have any plans for New Years…”. He then proceeded to tell us all the information we needed to know.

So it’s official. I will not be spending New Years here in the States. Actually I probably won’t be spending it in Iraq either. For all I know we could be in the air in between countries or over the ocean. Anyway, this is my last post until I get over to Iraq. Until then Happy New Years to everyone and try to drink one for me if you get a chance.