Made in off of Route Irish yesterday afternoon. Had to turn around and go back twice (third time's a charm, right?) VBIEDs went off in front of us, and we got stalled in traffic. When the South African Security guarding me gets nervous, I get nervous, so we didn't sit in traffic too long (tends to draw RPG fire when that happens). Went back to the IZ and took a break (get rid of all that water I drank. Anxiety really short cycles the kidneys).

Finally, after the pulled the burning hulks out of the road, we made it in. Nothing like waking up to the sound of machine gun fire at the perimeter to really get the day going. Tomorrow it will be the tight spiral up out of the airport to 15,000 feet, then off to home. I will be quite happy to be out of Iraqi airspace.

So anyways, I will let you know when I make it home.

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