Well its coming to that point where most of the people that worked with me the first half of the deployment are now returning home. My particular unit is the highest level for Marine Aviation and our Commanding General decided to have all E-6 and above stay a year. It at first was a very tough pill to swallow and honestly it was hard news to break to the wife who has been the everything while I'm away. We have a very amazingly strong marriage that is allowing us to look at the positives and move forward regardless if we agree with this decision. I'm looking forward to September… why? Because October is next. Everyday I'm here I'm one day closer to coming home when I get 2 weeks off in December to spend it with my beautiful wife and kids. We plan on surprising my son and taking him to Disney World. Its funny if you ever ask my son if he could go anywhere it would be Disney World. Its so enjoyable to hear him speak of it like it's a magical
place. Besides that we are just going to do everything on the fly for my leave. Here things are in for a change at my Forward Operating Base. With all these new people of course there will be all these new rules, and then in about 2 months everyone will stop following them. I've got the lunch and dinner menu pretty much memorized. They always have a line where they have a variation of different meals they serve. They seem to heavily cater to an Indian or Pilipino menu as most of the TCN's (Third Country Nationals) that work on our base. For the most part I get the same thing every day for lunch. 1 Grilled Chicken breast which I go to the sandwich bar for a wrap, 2 pieces of provolone cheese, lettuce and if I'm lucky diced tomatoes. Then I slide down the line and get Red jello. I don't know what flavor it is, its just red. On really good days its Orange. This is a very good day when they have orange jello. I then get bottled water. That has
been my lunch for the past 2 months, day in day out. For Dinner same thing, a line that serves different variations. And then they have the special. The special has been the same since I got here. Its Mongolian. You get your choice of peppers, lettuce, pineapple sometimes, shrimp, steak, chicken, rice or noodles. You can as much or as little as you want. Then they throw it on the grill. I get 2 spoon full of garlic powder, a little bit of soy sauce and then some sweet and shower. This has pretty much been dinner except for on Wednesday nights when they have Cesar Salad which is amazing. That's my lunch and dinner! I know most people can't eat the same thing over and over. But me I can, but I'm going to never want monogolian once I leave here ever. Sorry Wifey lol… I've watched my daughter grow before my eyes. She is now crawling. My wife got a video of it, and it is what makes life worth it….. I hope you all are well.
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