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couch, air conditioning, and digital cable And best of all.......NO MORE FREAKING SAND!!!!!!! That was awful sweet of you all to be so caring while I was gone. Another good thing about home is.....it's not near as boring as Fallujah was after the invasion. But before the invasion, the rockets and mortars were pretty thick, along with the occasional delusional insurgents (a few at a time) who found the testicular fortitude to try the small arms attacks....they are with Allah now though Alabama's own Kilo 4/14 did good, we all came back alive, despite all coming under direct fire at one point or another. The only casualty we had was our platoon commander, who was in a vehicle that struck an anti-tank mine the second day we were there. He survived with a few scratches, concussion, and ruptured ear drums....they forced him to finally leave country a month later when they couldn't stop the fluid building up and ear infections. 4/14 in the words of the commander of Camp Fallujah "set the reserves ahead 10 years". After the suicide bombing of the Mosul chow hall, the DoD launched a massive force protection investigation, and found Camp Fallujah to be THE finest in all of the land. Kilo was awarded a Presidential Unit Citation, and probably a Meritiorious Unit Citation for our work. Mike 4/14 (out of Chattanooga) was the MEF artillery, and fired over 3,500 155mm artillery shells in counter battery, and offensive strikes, and did it with deadly precision, especially during the invasion. Lima 4/14 (Bessemer) ran convoy security out of Al Taqaddam, west of Fallujah. They have the only KIA of our battalion that I know of, which was a vehicle accident. It hasn't been difficuly adjusting back to life back in God's country, but I admit....I have looked for my rifle once or twice
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