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Grand Junction, CO, USA - 21st September 2007
By: wourpet
We will be here for 2 days but there isn't going to be much sightseeing. Wourpet said this trip is all about work.
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Posted Sep 23, 2007, 4:41 pm
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Farmington, NM, USA - 23rd September 2007
By: wourpet
I'm back home for a day or 2. This afternoon wourpet took me and wuffy out for dinner. We went to Wuffy's favorite place and I loved it -- just look at the size of that salad bar!
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Posted Sep 24, 2007, 6:12 am
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Grand Junction, Colorado, USA - 24th September 2007
By: wourpet
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Posted Sep 25, 2007, 7:32 am Last edited Sep 25, 2007, 7:38 am by wourpet
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Albuquerque, NM, USA - 28th September 2007
By: wourpet
Tonight is our last night stateside so Wuffy and I (and his new friend wuffy III) are hangin' out at the Holiday Inn Select in Albuquerque. We have a wake-up call for 4 am but the staff here is being so great and giving us free meals and drinks so we're enjoying our last night of our leave.
Our room is really cool -- it even has a couch. I think I'll take the king size bed and let Wuffy take the couch.
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Posted Oct 1, 2007, 4:51 am Last edited Oct 1, 2007, 4:58 am by wourpet
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Shannon, Ireland - 29th September 2007
By: wourpet
Not a great start to our day. We missed our wakeup call at 4 but got up soon after and raced to get our civies sent back home and get into our uniform for travel. The hotel shuttle waited for us and we made it to the airport with just a little time to spare. It would have been great if Wuffy had gone to the right airline counter but when we finally got to our plane they had upgraded us to first class. Wow -- first class for our first flight. We flew to Dallas Texas first and eventually ended up in Shannon Ireland. Wuffy was checking out the irish pub but I told him he had a little too much Irish last night and we almost missed our flight.
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Posted Oct 1, 2007, 4:58 am
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Kuwait, Kuwait - 1st October 2007
By: wourpet
I have no idea what day it is really. We phoned home when we got here and wourpet said it was 5:30 pm in New Mexico -- on Sunday but our clock was showing 2:30 on Monday. We lost a lot of time getting here and after our 4 a.m. ruster I am going to get some sleep before we move out.
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Posted Oct 1, 2007, 5:09 am
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Baghdad, Iraq - 3rd October 2007
By: wourpet
I used messenger to send a message to wourpet today and let her know wuffy and I have arrived back at the FOB. The call center is being renovated so I was unable to call home. I will get some pictures up soon.
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Posted Oct 5, 2007, 2:19 am Last edited Dec 19, 2007, 5:11 pm by wourpet
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Baghdad, Iraq - 21st November 2007
By: wourpet
Uploading photos is a little tricky on my floundering internet connection but this is a picture of me awhile back when I was chillin out waiting to go out on patrol in New Baghdad.
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Posted Dec 19, 2007, 5:13 pm
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Baghdad, Iraq - 21st November 2007
By: wourpet
This is a shot of me and Wuffy as we head out on patrol.
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Posted Dec 20, 2007, 6:41 pm
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Baghdad, Iraq - 20th December 2007
By: wourpet
Wow. The Christmas Care Packages are arriving. Its a bummer to spend Christmas over here but at least we still get some presents to open. Heres some that have come in already.
and we got care packages from Blue Star Mothers in New Mexico AND Colorado. Presents from Home and from friends and family make things a little nicer over here. Of course I think most of these are for Wuffy.
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Posted Dec 20, 2007, 6:47 pm
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Baghdad, IRAQ - 29th February 2008
By: wourpet
It is suddenly of the utmost importance that the Conejo family rounds up all the strays and travelers for a family reunion at Easter. It would seem that Ahumado (Coney) Conejo is due to return from Iraq. His timing, even if we don't know the exact date, is excellent since it was one year ago on March 24 of 2007 that the Conejo family were rescued in Springerville Arizona and set off on their worldly adventures. However it seems the fate of the Conejo family is not a happy one and many may have possibly ended up in the stew pot.
Coney joined the army and was soon in Baghdad traveling around in tanks and hummers. Azul ran off with a new and unknown friend following a July 4th parade and is likely deep in the Navajo Nation with no internet communication and unable to report in. Picado has clocked a remarkable amount of miles as he has crisscrossed the globe and is currently in California. He will make one last visit to Florida before returning home for the reunion. Morado has just started out on the Russian TVT so he will not be able to make it home, or so he says, but the pictures from Germany and Russia are indicative of a fondness for partying. Rosa spent most of the year at home waiting for Coney but was invited by a park ranger (after she had left her wallet and ID behind at Aztec Ruins National Park) to visit a friend in France where she would be able to reach a life mission and visit a winery. First, though, she would spend some time with the Park Ranger, including a road trip around Montana. She traveled from the snow of Montana to the vinelands of France in December and will hopefully be heard from again this spring. Maybe she can even come home for the reunion and then return to France. Blanche went to Australia and it would appear she fell into the fate every little rabbit worries about -- the stew pot – and she was never heard from again. All attempts to contact her host or to have her moved on have gone unanswered. The rest of the Conejo family is of little help. With Azul missing in action on the Navajo Nation, or maybe also in the stew pot, Rosa snowed either under in the wilds of Montana or crushing grapes in France, or also in the stew pot, Morado partying and dancing in Russia, and sufficiently stewed even if he’s not in a pot and Blanche in the billycan -- it is going to be a sad affair when Picado is the only Conejo present to welcome his brother Coney home from his long deployment in Baghdad.
It would be so good if the Conejos could find their way back home.
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Posted Mar 1, 2008, 3:00 am Last edited Mar 8, 2008, 10:21 pm by wourpet
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Pope Air Force Base, NC, USA - 12th March 2008
By: wourpet
I am back from my mission in Iraq and will be going to Ft Bragg for a debriefing before my next mission. I don't know when I will be able to make it home to see my family.
This is a picture at the green ramp right after we got off the plane. Can you see me?
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Posted Mar 26, 2008, 2:11 am Last edited Mar 26, 2008, 2:31 am by wourpet
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Baltimore, Maryland, USA - 21st March 2008
By: wourpet
Well I sure lucked out for Easter (and my Birthday) and got a pass to go home for the weekend. Wuffy and I spent last night in Raleigh at the airport and this morning we flew to Baltimore MD. Here I am in the airport waiting for our plane to come in that will take us to Denver, CO.
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Posted Mar 26, 2008, 2:23 am
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