sgttucker: October 2006

New Gear!!! & Roadmarches!!!!

Shortly after we got here we
were issued our IBA's
(Improvised Body Armor). Our
1LT thought that it would be fun
to take a three mile road march
in them so we could start getting
used to them. It wasn't so bad
except that it rained the entire
road march.

Big Guns, Little Guns & All the Guns Inbetween!!!!!

9mm Handgun: The 9mm is the sidearm that we carry around on our hip. It is the smallest of all the weapons that we will have with us while we are in Iraq. When we were at this range we had to hit 17 out of 30 targets to qualify. I belive I hit 21 out of 30 if I remember right.

<---Just a bunch of us hanging
out under the tent at the
9mm range waiting for them
to call up our firing order.

Me getting ready to go fire.

Just double checking that

I have all my protective

equipment on(IBA, Kevlar,

Gloves, Eye & Ear Protection). --->

<---
SPC (Specialist) Haverty,

Neb. City, giving the thumbs

up after he got done firing.

--->

Me on the firing line

shooting at the pop up targets.

<---
SPC Richey, SPC Hoesing

and SPC Thomas giving

us thier best Charlies

Angels pose with thier 9mm.

PV2 Modrell(left) & PFC Sorensen(right) posing for the camera at the 9mm range

Homecoming!

Ty found out he has his leave from November 22-28. Yipee! He is given one day too and from for travel..and is still deciding on how to get home.. he's thinking he might rent a car with some other soldiers so they can take turns and drive through the night.. Unsure at this time, though..
I'll try not to hog him and let him spend time with the rest of our families.. we will still try to make it to the Willis & Tucker houses for Thanksgiving! The 22nd couldn't come any sooner!

ASHLAND, NE/LINCOLN, NE

ASHLAND, NE/LINCLON, NE

Ok everyone, our company had some time off today so I though that I would take some time to update the Blog from the start up to as present as I can get it.

I will start with Ashland before we even left for Mississippi.

<----This is all of us waiting outside on for the buses before we left on the plane.

After we got on the buses we left for Linclon.
That is were we flew out of.

<---This is us waiting on the second plane to arrive at the Air Force Base in Linclon.

<----Us Loading the plane with Gear and Soldiers.

<----Another Picture of us loading the plane.

GULFPORT, MS

This is the first thing I saw when we landed in Gulfport, MS. I belive it is a Huey? Not for sure though.

And this is what our Barracks looked like when we just moved in.

I'm finally on!

Hey everyone its Me(Ty) finally!!! Sorry it has taken a while to make a post but we have been busy with training(As you can see). I have many more picture and videos to post so hopefully we will have internet soon so I can get those up. I would like to thank Anne for posting the pictures that are up now. I dont have much time left so I'll say bye for now. Have to get some rest for our 2 mile stress fire road march tomorrow. But thanks for everything everyone and I'll talk to ya on the next post.

SGT T

The Xbox

I got to talk to Ty last night but he was deep into a game on the Xbox -- he said he was busy all day, but they were rewarded for their intense training by having a pizza party! They even got pop - which they hadn't been able to have for a few days (6 Ty said! He was going through withdrawl!) Anyways, he said things may finally be settling down - at least for a day! But as soon as he says that, it seems like they get busy again! At least he was able to relax with video games last night :)

The Army Cut

Ty's first pictures! (and his first shave since being there...)

Here are some of the pictures from Mississippi -- I will try to explain them.. although most of them are self-explanatory!