Nicole Gardner, a Life Skills Center of Lake Erie Invention Specialist who is being deployed to Iraq, recently wrote this e-mail from overseas.
Hello everyone,
How is everyone doing? I would like to thank everyone who has sent e-mails. It's always nice to hear from home.
Well, after two long weeks of being promised that I'm leaving "tomorrow" I finally got on a helicopter late last night for Mosul. It was a Chinook, which is a
transport helicopter, which has 30 seats but 31 people flying.
Yep, I got to sit on a crate of boxes in the the rear ramp half-way open so I had a really nice view of the stars as we flew north over the desert.\
It's amazing how many you can actually see once you get away from lights and cities.
I've heard a lot of good things about the base here in Mosul. It's called FOB (forward operating base) Marez and is pretty well built up as far as housing and
facilities.
Marez is pretty much across the street from another base called FOB Diamondback. You can take a shuttle bus between the two bases if you want.
Mosul is the furthest north I've ever been in Iraq.
It's in the mountains and I'm told it stays cooler here in the summer. How much cooler I don't know. Maybe it only gets up to 110 degrees instead of 140.
It's nice to have the mountains to look at though. I've never actually seen scenery in Iraq before this morning. The disturbing part is how great of a view I
have of an Iraqi freeway. I'm not worried about noise, I'm worried that if I can see outside of the base that well, they can see inside just as easily.
Yesterday, before I arrived, the base was hit with 7 mortar attacks. I'm told that I'll be changing rooms soon though.
That makes me feel better:) I'll have to send pictures.
Well, it's time for lunch and I have to find the chow hall before it closes.
Talk to everyone soon,
Nicole
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