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Subject: Ben Hoffman’s Emails
December 2, 2004
Hey Everyone,
How’s it going back
in the states? Everything is about the same here.
It sounds like I
might be going back to supply to work instead of going out to pull tower guard.
I guess I have mixed feelings on the change ... tower guard is pretty lazy just
a lot of sitting around watching. That’s about the only thing that is good
about tower guard ... that it isn’t a whole lot of work. But the days tend to
drag on after a while.
The good thing about
going back to supply is I will be constantly busy…the days will fly by but the
bad thing is I won’t be leaving this camp until we leave for good … after a
while it feels like you're trapped … oh well.
The reason I’m getting to go back to supply is because we have to start
inventorying and packing stuff to send to the states. Another reason I’m going
back to supply is because everyone is coming back from R&R so the spots
that support guys are filling because of shortages are starting to get filled
up again.
On December 1st we
made the switch to the 3:00 to 11:00(pm) shift, we were on the 7:00 to 3:00
shift … I’m looking forward to the new shift but I doubt ill be on it long
because of the supply thing. Its December 2 today its my day off … the last one
I had was 10 days ago. I had a ton of
stuff to catch up on…so it was a pretty busy day.
The camp I’m at has
a Burger King, Pizza Hut, and a little Italian restaurant ran by the Italians.
I have only ate at pizza hut once since I have lived in Camp Tallil, but I eat
at the Italian place quite a bit they have the best pizza EVER and its only
$5…it’s a great deal. The new chow hall opened about half a month ago and I have
only ate there once … its nothing special the food is the same just a lot
better facility than the other chow hall.
Its been really calm
here the past 2 weeks … always a good thing. I sent 7 new pictures to the Henry
web site. There is one of me and Donnie, me and some of the Iraqi guys from our
Karbala mission, and a few others, the address to the web site its http://www.henrysd.com/. Here is another
site I’m on http://www.ksfy.com/Stories/Story.cfm?SID=851 ... one of my friends from Sisseton put us
on it.
I finally got the
room completely decorated for Christmas … I added some candy canes to the
Christmas tree plus I hung a few more decorations up, I would have to say It
looks pretty good. Overall everything is going (ok) here, it seems like the
days are just flying by and i'll be seeing you all real soon.
Talk to you later,
Benny
p.s. November last
year is when we first heard we were getting deployed…….December 18 was our
first day of active duty………..but our first day in Kuwait was January 29th (the
day that really matters to the guys who decide when we go home is the Jan. one)
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