I am home now, back in the United States. I've been negligent in posting or updating and I apologize. I have been home for over a week now and it has been a bit in adjustment.

Readjusting to home life isn't quite what I thought it would be. It was about a week to finish up out processing before being released on leave, and that time was a bit of a blur, with a lot of administrative requirements.

I've spent a lot of the time back irritable and edgy, random periods of sleep, and fiddling around with not much of anything. It is slower here and not a life lived on the edge, for sure. Equilibrium is off, emotions are as well. I can't say I was even happy to get back at first, if anything, I was depressed and anxious. I wasn't one of those guys kissing the ground when we got off the plane. There's a whole world back in Iraq that most people know nothing about, maybe a news clip or article if that, and they will never know. For some it will not even give them a pause as they go through life, which to me didn't seem right the first day back in the US. All the people back in Iraq live a very foreign life from existence here in the US. I can see how veterans have a hard time adjusting as this is like trying to make a 180 degree direction change while going very very fast.

I plan on posting a few more times and throwing up some more pictures once I dig through them. Not sure where the blog will go from here, but I have some more to write on both Iraq and life now back in the US, kind of wrap up the tour and complete the blog, if you will.