Enter the Squirrel

Hello everyone from back home. This is my first real update in a while, and it just so happens it corresponds with a new.. friend of mine. I would like to introduce all of you to…. Nuts, the secret squirrel.

Don’t be fooled by his cuteness… this ones dangerous! Just look at his eyes!

He was sent to me through Operation Gratitude, where people back home donate goods and they send them off to deployed forces. He was sent to me. I know this wasn’t by mistake. He almost took me out when I opened the box until he recognized my uniform. Lucky me. But now we’re a team, fighting the insurgency… Lance Corporal Jacob Vorpahl and his partner, Nuts, the secret squirrel.

We were just informed we were going out. We knew it’d be dangerous, so we put on our game faces.

We started getting all our gear ready to go, wasting no time at all. Here is Nuts preparing to go into the fray. A brave one he is.

Knowing full well they’d never let him come, I had to smuggle him on board the boat inside some of my gear. It was a tight fit, but, we got him on board.

And…. I would show more, but, alas, I must save more of Nuts and my adventures for another day. (Actually, the system isn’t letting me put anymore pictures up)

I’m doing pretty good right now, all things considered. I’ve bought Hadji copies of TV series back home and have been watching them a bit on our rest periods (right now its mainly Smallville, the show about Superman growing up in a small town). Reading when I can actually concentrate, and excersizing when time permits.

Our schedule has been crazy right for reasons that should be obvious but that I can’t talk about. Hopefully it will level out over the next month or so.

In other news, tomorrow is my birthday, I’ll be 24, one year away from getting my insurance discount for being 25, and that’s mostly it. I miss everyone back home dearly. A friend of mine here and I were discussing today how our lives have basically stopped while everyone else’s back home keeps going forward. Relationships change, people change, etc. It worries us sometimes, some more than others, but, know that none of you are “out-of-sight, out-of-mind” as the saying goes. I know with some back home I am, some I’m not, no biggie. If you could, just leave me a little room when I get back to reinsert myself back into your lives and I’ll be happy as a clam.

I love you all, and Happy 4th, though a little late.

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