Living in Trailer Park Paradise

Well after being thoroughly annoyed by the lack of organization the military was showing, dad is now in Iraq. He sat around in Kuwait for longer than he had originally thought he would be there. Once he finally got a flight into Baghdad he found himself waiting once again for a flight. He stayed in a room full of guys at the Baghdad airport waiting to get a helicopter ride to the base he is going to be spending the majority of his time at. Getting little sleep at the airport because of the constant yelling of updates to flight times, he got a helicopter ride to his base. He is now comfortably living on his base a little ways outside of Baghdad. This base is much nicer than the base he lived in last time he was there. He is living in trailer type housing, which is actually very nice because it is air conditioned (much appreciated in the 130 degree temp) and he is the only one in his trailer. He received his satellite phone once on the base, so he can now call home every day. I have not talked to him because I have been at work, but I am told he is staying busy building things like a clothes rack for his room. The internet connection has not yet been realised, but he said they are working on getting him internet connection in his room for his laptop. Once connected to the rest of the world through cyberspace, we will hopefully be receiving some pictures. If any of you would like to drop him a line you can by emailing him at Chandlerd6@hotmail.com . I am sure he would much appreciate an email, and would enjoy reading them in his free time.

"Leaving on a jet plane"

Today is June 29th, and dad is currently flying high over the Atlantic ocean. Four days after his initial date of departure, the trip has begun. Most of you of course know that dad has been gone for about a week and a half now, but he was spening that time at fort Benning in Georgia. His days were at first filled with activity on the base, but the activity had died down and it became quite boring and he was in fact pretty happy to be heading out. The flight from Atlanta to Germany is supposed to take about twelve hours and then he has another flight to Kuwait from there and one more flight after that to the Baghdad International Airport. That is about all there is to report at this point, but I will hopefully be getting a picture page up soon where I will post pictures from his first trip over there until I get pics from this trip. I hope that you enjoy this blog, and I hope it will provide a good source of what my dad is up to over in the hotter region of the world.