20051204

Day in the life of a Soldier in Iraq.

Could you please give us a "day in the life of a soldier in Iraq" post? Describe an average day for you? What time do you rise in the morning...eat breakfast...patrol, etc...until lights out? I'm really curious as to what life is like for the average HERO on a regular day in Iraq.

Susan

Gigotti78- An average day for a soldier? For me, it is more scheduled than others. I work a ten hour shift getting off at 2 o'clock in the morning. I work in an office processing soldiers leave, pay and what not. I work in Headquarters Company. Now as for our soldiers in the "Line" companies, they really dont have a schedule. I have had the opportunity to get out and go on some patrols. Patrols take place at any given time, whatever the mission calls. One day you may go out at 7 in the morning for a few hours, come back and then have to go back out till o-dark-thirty, just to have to be up at 6 in the morning for another patrol. There are soldiers who run convoy routes to get supplies from point A to point B that can have them away from base for days at a time, on the road. As for lights out, that is purely up to you since their is activity 24 hours a day. You catch some sleep when you have the chance or go to the gym to work off some steam. Like I said, my job is pretty mundane and routine, others is hectic and fast paced. I am one of the fortunate soldiers so to say.

Mr. Matt - Same as above. I work the same hours as Gigotti78 in close to the same capasity. As far as the soldiers that do patrols, convoys, and perimiter security. It's not usually the same times because someone could say that there is a mission change and you have 25 or 30 min. to get ready. Then other times you know that you have to do, when you have to do it.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Questions:

(1) What (if you are able to share the information) is your mission, what are the goals of your mission, and are any of the Iraqi people involved in this mission?

(2) Are you able to receive respite from battle fatigue (i.e., sending alternate troops in and sending you back to wherever)?

(3) How often are you able to contact your families?

(4) How long do you feel you'll be there, and where would you like to go after your deployment?

(5) What do you feel about some people in the States not supporting the war? How does that affect you (if at all)?

In my response to #5, I would just like to say that the majority of people are not against the troops per se, but how much the US is spending on the war, the safety of the troops, and how the US economy is doing as a result. It isn't to disrespect the troops in ANY WAY, like it was when the Vietnam Vets came home. It's more in the way the President is handling it, how he is offering no guidelines as to what the goals are, just that it's a war on terror, and the suspicions surrounding the real reasons behind the invasion. I think he's making a huge mess for the next president to clean up. And how two oil tycoons (George W and Dick Cheney) running the country the way they are, can sleep at night making the money that they're making in all of this.

Anonymous said...

Questions:

(1) What (if you are able to share the information) is your mission, what are the goals of your mission, and are any of the Iraqi people involved in this mission?

(2) Are you able to receive respite from battle fatigue (i.e., sending alternate troops in and sending you back to wherever)?

(3) How often are you able to contact your families?

(4) How long do you feel you'll be there, and where would you like to go after your deployment?

(5) What do you feel about some people in the States not supporting the war? How does that affect you (if at all)?

In my response to #5, I would just like to say that the majority of people are not against the troops per se, but how much the US is spending on the war, the safety of the troops, and how the US economy is doing as a result. It isn't to disrespect the troops in ANY WAY, like it was when the Vietnam Vets came home. It's more in the way the President is handling it, how he is offering no guidelines as to what the goals are, just that it's a war on terror, and the suspicions surrounding the real reasons behind the invasion. I think he's making a huge mess for the next president to clean up. And how two oil tycoons (George W and Dick Cheney) running the country the way they are, can sleep at night making the money that they're making in all of this.

Anonymous said...

Questions:

(1) What (if you are able to share the information) is your mission, what are the goals of your mission, and are any of the Iraqi people involved in this mission?

(2) Are you able to receive respite from battle fatigue (i.e., sending alternate troops in and sending you back to wherever)?

(3) How often are you able to contact your families?

(4) How long do you feel you'll be there, and where would you like to go after your deployment?

(5) What do you feel about some people in the States not supporting the war? How does that affect you (if at all)?

In my response to #5, I would just like to say that the majority of people are not against the troops per se, but how much the US is spending on the war, the safety of the troops, and how the US economy is doing as a result. It isn't to disrespect the troops in ANY WAY, like it was when the Vietnam Vets came home. It's more in the way the President is handling it, how he is offering no guidelines as to what the goals are, just that it's a war on terror, and the suspicions surrounding the real reasons behind the invasion. I think he's making a huge mess for the next president to clean up. And how two oil tycoons (George W and Dick Cheney) running the country the way they are, can sleep at night making the money that they're making in all of this.