I began my journey/adventure early November of 2013. Leaving the state of Kentucky for the next nine months of my life. Not that I have any particular bonds with the state of Kentucky, like that of a loyal state (Texas), however it was a place for the last year I have called home.
On to bigger and better things I found myself accompanying the 19th Engineer Battalion on their deployment to Kuwait. Not that I didn't want to find myself in a desert with a group of people that I by contract had to live and work with on a very close and personal level, but that I really wasn't entirely sure what to expect.
Upon our arrival to Kuwait we had the luxury of being the first guests of this dusty region to be graced with the rain of a thousand rains. Flooding in the area I was going to be living and working, had pretty much consumed the land and all the shapes man had created on it. Luckily for us here as Engineers it was truly our lifeblood to repair the types of damages done.
What had started as a deployment foreshadowed with ominous rumors of "where in the world" we would be going as a unit, had quickly become one immense group of men and women with all the intentions of finding themselves in the action. Most people in my opinion had been led to believe that every duck was already put into a neat and orderly row, though that was truly still up to sheer interpretation.
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