MIddle East - Last Days

WOW ~ we never thought we were going to get out of Camp Speicher. We were stuck there due to a sand storm that had had cancelled all flights to the base. Speicher was Sadam's air force headquarters and olympic training facility. I got a tour of the headquarters that was bombed out as well as some of the housing that that was in a fire fight. Big holes in roofs from missiles, thousands of bullet holes in the walls, mangled re-bar barley holding the concrete together... it was interesting. Its hard to try and think back and put yourself there to try and recreate what went on and what was going through the peoples heads.

The base was also home to the Iraqi olympic training facility... weird I know. But Sadam had built a mini complex with a track, soccer field, gym, and swimming pool with a 10m platform. Now, if you were an Iraqi olympian and did not succeed.. you were killed, so we were told. So this base has seen some action.

After 2 flight cancellations, we barely got out yesterday and we landed in Kuwait at the base there. Its a strange feeling being over here.

Its hard to take it all in, what I have just experienced, the people and their stories... we are in a war zone and yet it didn't feel like it, at least as of now. There are other smaller bases that I am told where it does feel like you are, sleeping in a big tent with dust covering everything, no air conditioning, going to sleep with the sound mortars going off in the distance... next time!

Are flight leaves at midnight tonight (friday) and we head to Europe then back home in time for to get a normal lunch! :)