To my new friends,
I thank you all very much for giving me some pleasant distractions, humor, a ton of newly acquired knowledge, and, most importantly, a new-found love of kilts and all things Scottish! This forum (in part) has made my last 4 or 5 months in Afghanistan bearable...and now it is time for me to head home to my family after 15 long months of separation.

It's a big time in our household...wife and kids have the movers coming this week for a household move to my current base of assignment (...my wife was in school and unable to move when I received my last orders) and I'm leaving my deployed location in a couple of days to start the 8-day movement home (...lots of layovers...hurry up, and wait). If all goes as currently planned, I should be kissing my wife and kids on the afternoon of Christmas Eve!!!

In the interim, I wish you all Merry Christmas, Happy New Year's, and Happy Holidays...and I can't wait to post pics of me in that new kilt that's waiting for me at home!

Until then....