My Husband is back from Iraq!

Jason, my husband came home from Iraq Thursday night the 5th of April. He has 100's of pictures and luckily no horror stories of his own. He seems happy, healthy and glad to be home. He did admit to going on alot more convoys than I had guessed. I guessed five, it was more like 20. The trucks the Seabees were driving were practically indestructable. One was hit but no one was hurt. He did also mention there were a few mortor attacks when he first arrived, but again no one was hurt.
He said the place is a godless hellhole, I need to correct him and suggest using the term God Forsaken. Its a bummer even my own husband equates being godless as a negative. I of course don't think he really thought about it, its like a cultural reflexive response similar to "lets nuke em all".

If it were truely a godless place, the Sunni's and Shiite's wouldn't be blowing each other up

Helena IR article
A detachment of Navy Seabees will trickle back to Montana over the next few weeks after a yearlong deployment in the Middle East.

The group of 37 sailors spent the last year repairing roads destroyed by IEDs, providing convoy security, and doing general reconstruction.

“They’re a forward deployable construction battalion,” said Chief John Webster, spokesman for the Navy Reserve in Helena. “They can make runways and makeshift buildings, things of that nature, to set up a forward operating base.”

Webster said the detachment left Montana last March. The group trained at the U.S. Naval Reserve Station at Gulfport, Miss., before leaving for Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait.

Webster said the detachment will return home sporadically over the next few weeks.

“We’re going to see what happens when everyone gets here,” said Webster. “We’ll see what our numbers are and have a big family day out here, sometime in late spring.”

The detachment of Seabees didn’t suffer any known casualties during the deployment, Webster said.

However, one member of Montana’s Naval Reserve, Petty Officer Charles Komppa, was killed in Iraq on Oct. 25, 2006.