Mood:  bright

American Soldier by Toby Keith

he’s back

in the states

!!!!!!!!!!

I just wanted to let you know that Soldier is back in the States now. He called Mississippi Mom to let her know, and she passed it to me. Then of course I got the voice mail. He is in Dallas, and is catching a flight to LAX. I don’t know what his flight number is, but after using my “investigative” skills I have an idea of which flight he is on. The soonest he will land in Cali is 1100 and the next flight to Smorcut leaves LAX at 1322, so the earliest he can arrive in Smorcut is around 1430 or so. If he misses those flights, the next flight out of there is 1830, so hopefully he can catch the first one though in his email, it did say he would arrive in Smorcut at 1918… but hey, if he can get there early, why not? I am just letting you know that you don’t have to worry about the phone ringing until after lunch. ^_^ I checked to see if he could fly to Santa Barbara then to Smorcut, but there was only one flight and it just left now, so that would be a negative on that. I just thought I would keep you updated. I am SOO glad he is State side again!

On a sadder note, I want to take a moment and send my condolences to the Goodman family as they are grieving their loss of their 21 year old daughter. Flyboy and I don’t know their family personally, but Radar does, and he and Ashton were really good friends growing up. She was severely injured while deployed to Afghanistan from an IED explosion over Memorial Day weekend. Radar says he is alright, but I know him well enough to know… Anyway, I just wanted to take a moment and send my condolences to all of those that knew her, and Radar, if you are reading this, have a safe trip back home, I will have some wings for ya when you get back, if I am not able to send you out there with them…

There isn’t much going on here. I am still packing and I was finally able to find all of our missing socks. There are a few things on my list to get before we make our trip out there.

Did you know it’s a 14 hour flight from Germany to Dallas Texas? I know, a little random. Flyboy and I discovered that Soldier was in Germany when he alerted us of his “718” arrival. (He never told us what day he was arriving and we scrambled around to figure out, basically what was “up”.) In the process of all of that we learned that it is a 14 hour flight from Germany to Dallas Texas. It is also a 9 hour time difference between Germany and Cali. Hey, I never said my entries couldn’t be educational… hehe.

I don’t know what else is going on around here. Flyboy flies tomorrow, go figure, the day before he goes on leave. They always do this, and it just makes the day before traveling even more stressful because there is always a chance of him getting diverted and having to stay in another state over night. I know they will bus him back to base that way he can go on leave, but then that just worries me regarding land travel. At least in the air they don’t have to really worry about traffic (I won’t bring up the near head on collision that he was in during a TDY in Vegas. I am just glad that our pilots knew what they were doing. For this I believe that the navy should stay in the water, leave the flying to us. ^_~ ) Anyway… birds strikes, knock on wood, not to stressed about that until he gets station in Alaska. *shudders* but anyway, anyway, ANYWAY… people in cars are insane, and you know me, it bothers me when I am not the one driving, well unless I am with a parent or family adults that have more than 5 years behind the wheel. *shudders* the rest of you are scary drivers, stop it! Anywho, I guess it is basically a trust issue, and that stresses me out. But I don’t see any strange weather on radar and Radar won’t be flying, so we don’t have to worry about the plane breaking. (Sorry Radar, I couldn’t resist) So I think it should be fine. I will find out when crew rest starts around lunch time, I think… I mean, I think he said he was heading to Mission Planning just now, but then again, generally it is after lunch. (Not always, but it sure seems like it) hmm…

Well, before I think to hard and let my brain explode, I think I will let you all go for now. I need to figure out what I want to destroy for dinner. Plus, I need to get, I know, you know, more cleaning done. So take care and I shall see some of you in 5 days 9 hours and 19 minutes, your time!

 ~NikiRose

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 ****UPDATE**** 

Soldier has landed in town and is safe and sound in the states.

I just picked up Flyboy and we are both starving, so it is time for food, sorry. =/ Take care and have a great day!!

Love ya,

~NikiRose