![]() The second floor was wooden and in the morning someone probably Webb made the comment that it was cold and SSG Lewis had us doing side straddle hops till he returned. At this old MOUNT site we trained all day and then bedded down for the night on the second floor. Yeah didn’t make much sense to us either. Like in a late year training problem that had us out at an old MOUNT site on our way to a new one in the dead of winter to prepare for the desert. 2003 was looking to be a really bad year. Later on that year we would start preparing to go to Iraq. Fred Ex said that that was one of the worst field problems he’s ever been on and he’s been in over ten years. All of us quoting Water World and talking like pirates. Hurricane season had just hit the Carolinas and Kentucky was catching hell from all the rain. My first real field problem at Fort Campbell was a month long stretch in the woods complete with what we called the Battalion Death March. Nothing came of it and I soon just kept declining to go out, out of habit. I was going back home to my wife every day just to be with her. After work the guys would go out on the town and invite me to come along. We trained a lot at Fort Campbell and we all had a great time. The whole damn platoon was funny as hell. Now we had others come and go but that was the roster for Iraq. SSG Benjamin Lewis, SGT Matson, SGT Ransom (Amy), Fred EX, Goforth, Copeland (Barry), Webb, Mikler, and myself. I was in second squad and did we ever have a funny group of guys. Alpha company Colesteel, 3rd platoon WARPIGS. I was having a rough time adjusting to the Army life but it soon came to suit me. She had not changed at all from high school and she wasn’t the most fun person in the world then, believe me. ![]() Hera and I were happy for a little while but in about six months I had already started to regret rushing into a marriage. I moved quickly to Hopkinsville Kentucky where I would stay the entire time I was at Fort Campbell. OREGON and that was the fourth time I woke up in a pool of my own blood on the bathroom floor………………………………………………… I almost severed my index toe on my left foot on a piece of glass at the U.S.S. My visit was short and sweet but it’s something I would get used to the longer I was in the ARMY. A long time ago in a town far, far away… (From where I’m at right now)
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