Flying to Kuwait

It was a long trip from the states. I hauled all my bags to the meet point
on camp Shelby Mississippi about 0630.

0700 Loaded buses drove to a building and got out long enough to walk through the building, scan the bar code on our ID card, and weigh ourselves with our carry-on bag for flight weight data. Then back on the bus and drove ~60 miles south to Gulf Port. There we waited in a empty bay till take off at about 2:30
pm.

(Why have chairs in a waiting area?)

(My battle buddy Brian)

1430 Left Gulfport
1700 Landed in Norfolk VA. My brother recently moved to Norfolk where he is doing residency rotations in a hospital there. I took the opportunity to call him, but I think he was out of town. He said he didn’t live far from the airport where I was. I had been to Norfolk one other time in 2004 with my wife and Anson. We had driven from near Louisville Kentucky where we were staying at the time while I completed an Armor officer school for the Army at Ft Knox. While there we went to Bush Gardens. Both times it was hot and humid.

1945 left Norfolk
2215 landed in Newfoundland Canada
2345 left Newfoundland
0500 landed in Leipzig Germany
0730 Left Leipzig
1305 Landed in Dubai
1515 left Dubai
1630 Landed in Kuwait

1930 Arrived by bus to Camp Beuhring Kuwait. My home for the next month.

 

It was over 36 hours of travel time. And the local time when we landed in Kuwait was just after midnight, 12:30 a.m. And when we finally got off the bus at Beuhring it was 3:30 a.m., at which time we were herded into a large tent for in processing and briefings. We were all exhausted and hungry. I remember one of the briefings was about getting enough sleep.