Stars and Stripes Article

Below is a link to a Stars and Stripes article about the PRT I will be joining and the poultry project they are working on. I will be able to work with Major McCoy for about a month and a half before she is rotated out.

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=51986

Ryan

Training Week 1

Asalaam Alaikum,

I hope everyone is doing as you can see one of the things I learned this week was some Arabic phrases. Learning even a little Arabic is going to be very difficult. I am at the preschool level as I don't even know the letters, sounds or numbers. I also found out that I am arriving just in time for sand storm season (February through March). I have been told that it is a very fine sand and gets into everything.

I also found out that I will be based southwest of Baghdad and will be working with poultry. I really don't know alot about chickens so this should be interesting. If any of you have any information about poultry please let me know.

Fii Amaan Illah,

Ryan

Leaving Comments

If any of you have tried to leave comments and had trouble, that was my fault. I had the comments shut off. Anyone should be able to comment now.

Ryan

Training and Deployment

Many of you have asked when I am leaving. I fly to DC for several weeks of training on Monday the 21st. Then on Feb. 8th I fly to Iraq.

Welcome to my blog

Hey everybody, I have set up this blog so we can stay in touch. I hope to keep this blog as updated as possible and keep you informed of my many adventures. You are all more than welcome to post comments as well (just remember to keep it clean).

Hope to hear from all of you soon.

Ryan