All hail the aircraft maintenance Gods that have seen it proper to destroy the aircraft coming to pick us up and take us away upon every landing at each re-fueling post! Ahoo! Ahoo! Ahoo!
Seriously, can't say I'm excited about having to ride on the biggest piece of shit plane in the fleet (assuming it ever makes it here to pick us up), but it has been nice to be home the last couple days. The only thing that sucks is going to work and thinking you're leaving, so you have to say your "goodbyes" and your "I'll see you's" - then you're back home 2 hours later with nothing to do, so you call up everyone you just said goodbye to for the third time and ask them if they wanna meet you out for a beer....
Same thing happened to me in '04 going to Iraq. Took us like 2 weeks to leave. I thuoght it was cool cuz I got to hang out and party some more. The married guys, the guys with families, took it upon themselves to stay in hotels out in town after the 3rd cancellation of our flight. They couldn't go through it again - saying goodbye to the kids and the wife and the crying and all that... Ugh. Bachelorhood appreciation excersise, that was.
But, still in VA waiting for a broke-ass airplane. Sweetness.
Seriously, can't say I'm excited about having to ride on the biggest piece of shit plane in the fleet (assuming it ever makes it here to pick us up), but it has been nice to be home the last couple days. The only thing that sucks is going to work and thinking you're leaving, so you have to say your "goodbyes" and your "I'll see you's" - then you're back home 2 hours later with nothing to do, so you call up everyone you just said goodbye to for the third time and ask them if they wanna meet you out for a beer....
Same thing happened to me in '04 going to Iraq. Took us like 2 weeks to leave. I thuoght it was cool cuz I got to hang out and party some more. The married guys, the guys with families, took it upon themselves to stay in hotels out in town after the 3rd cancellation of our flight. They couldn't go through it again - saying goodbye to the kids and the wife and the crying and all that... Ugh. Bachelorhood appreciation excersise, that was.
But, still in VA waiting for a broke-ass airplane. Sweetness.
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rushl:
Hopefully you get out soon! But that is the military... Hurry Up and Wait! Hopefully you aren't on a c-130... I had to fly on one for 3 days straight, and it SUCKED!!! Anywho, let us know when you land safely! 
jp:
So typical. I knew it. The only sure way for that plane to have gotten there was for me to have driven down. 