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Duster
10-09-2008, 08:01 PM
Headed home for a 15 day leave before deployment to Iraq. Driving his first big road trip so we are sitting by the phone waiting for a call if he gets lost...LOL.
nwest
10-09-2008, 08:19 PM
Thank him for us Duster.
schroader
10-09-2008, 08:21 PM
Thank the young man for my Family Duster.
ril7572
10-09-2008, 08:46 PM
Thank him for us Duster.

x 2. I hope you have a great visit.
wademup
10-09-2008, 08:50 PM
Amen,let him know that those of us in the real world appreciate what he is doing.
grouser68
10-09-2008, 09:31 PM
Duster, thank your grandson for me, tell him to be safe, but most of all tell him to adjust, and look for new TTP's everyday! The battlefield seems to change on a daily basis!Good luck!
barney
10-09-2008, 09:34 PM
x 2. I hope you have a great visit.
Multiplied by the national debt!
kyhunter270
10-10-2008, 08:34 AM
Tell him to keep his head down and his weapon loaded. Hope you all have a great visit.
RLWEBB
10-10-2008, 09:44 AM
Tell him I said "Thanks" and "God bless you." I'm thankful for all our brave men and women who wear the uniform.
MercuryNewt
10-10-2008, 10:46 AM
Tell him thanks and take him hunting! :D
Duster
10-10-2008, 11:22 AM
Well just got a call from him, he has made it as far as Columbus Ohio and is at a friends house resting. Plans to hit the road again tomorrow to finish the trip home. Only got lost 4 or 5 times so far...he only has to follow 6 roads from Ft Drum to his house in Ky and all are 4 lane or better...LOL....I am sure going to give it to him when he gets here....all I have heard is I won't get lost I got a GPS...Maybe he needs to read the instruction book a little better on how it works.
11-87shooter
10-10-2008, 11:42 AM
the new york state thruway is a pain in the but, but then the trip down 71 thru ohio is even worse, seems like it never ends every time i dmake that drive home. Tell him to be safe coming home and use the 15 days to his advantage, to have a good time with family. when he deploys make sure he takes grousers advise about the TTP's. when he does deploy tell him to be safe and alert at all times. maybe i will run into him in the spring, who knows.
JDMiller
10-10-2008, 11:53 AM
Duster hope ya'll have a good time when he's in. I'd say there will be a new person standing in front of you... we wish him the best.

The young man that was sweet on my daughter just finished basic at Ft. Benning a few days ago. My understanding with him..he's heading directly to Ft. Bragg.. hopefully he will get to come in for Thanksgiving or Christmas. I think he will be deployed very soon after that.
rangerman2003
10-10-2008, 12:02 PM
I cant say thanks enough to your grandson for everything he is doing for this great nation of ours. But tell him if hes ever up this way I will buy him a beer, or root beer if hes under age lol...
scratch
10-10-2008, 02:39 PM
Glad to hear Hes coming home for a visit Duster...Hope your family has a wonderful time together..Thank him for us and we pray he is safe during his travels thru life.
Fords4life
10-12-2008, 10:56 AM
tell him i am sorry he's at Ft Drum and glad he's home. Ft Drum gives you a whole new perspective on cold.
Duster
10-12-2008, 11:14 AM
Well after 20 or so phone calls he made it to Ky late yesterday. I think he called every 10 miles yesterday asking for directions. Once for those of you who know I-65...he said he had just crossed Salt River...a hour later he called again that he was 10 miles from E-Town and what road was that he was supposed to take from there...I would say he missed the WK parkway and drove to near Bowling Green before turning around once he figure out he was lost....He is the only kid I know that can turn a 12 to 13 hour drive into a 48 hour adventure....:D
Duster
10-12-2008, 11:15 AM
tell him i am sorry he's at Ft Drum and glad he's home. Ft Drum gives you a whole new perspective on cold.


He has been there since last December...so he knows what snow and cold is....:D
kyhunter270
10-13-2008, 12:57 PM
I went up to Ft. Drum back in 1989 for winter training, It was almost as cold as Korea.....
Duster
10-13-2008, 04:08 PM
I went up to Ft. Drum back in 1989 for winter training, It was almost as cold as Korea.....

In mid Jan they sent about 200 Ft Drum guys down to Ft Campbell for a winter break and to use the sym center....guess what we got our biggest snow of the year the second week they were here...LOL

From what I can find out he is headed to Tallil air base in southern Iraq the end of the month. Reading about that place the temp hit 140 not long ago, At least they will not have to worry about snow looks like.