Reply #7: He has been in training...

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He was in the Navy for five years and September of '06 changed over to the Army. He has been training as a Scout. According to what he told his parents it would be in Iraq 18-24 months. He is not one to exaggerate, especially with is mom. With what is going on the 18 months might be closer to the time he will spend there. Right now they are extending them up to 15+ months. I am going to try and get down to Fort Benning before he goes but I don't know if I can swing it.

He is looking forward to his tour in Iraq which I don't understand. I spent four years in the USAF during Vietnam. The closest I got to "action" was fighting gonorrhea at the beach front at Patrick AFB, FL (Cocoa Beach, FL) and we lost that one too! I was a laboratory technician and medic and we had several wounded Marines come in and out of the hospital at Patrick AFB. Their wounds ended up killing them but it took a long time to do it and it was not pretty.