Sunday

Today was an uneventful Sunday for me. Since the Packers have a Monday night shoot out with the Baltimore Ravens, I don't even have any football to watch. I caught some of the Pittsburgh versus Minnesota game as well as part of the San Diego versus Indianapolis game.

I attended a number of mandatory briefings required before redeploying, which was a somewhat exciting event. We received a reunion briefing, a suicide awareness briefing, an operational security briefing, a legal briefing and a finance briefing.

We are getting these mandatory briefings out of the way now so that we won't have to worry about them when our replacements arrive. When that happens, we will have plenty to do in order to set them up for success when they take responsibility for the area of operations.

We might be getting some visitors from the Ambassadors of Hollywood group. They do tours to support/encourage deployed soldiers. They are sending us Kelly Hu (the actress who played Lady Deathstrike on X-Men II) and some musician guy named Mitch Allen. I've never heard his music, but by the look of his picture he could use a haircut. :)

Be safe, drink water.

Phil