Well, ten months after my youngest nephew returned from a tour in Iraq, he's back in the Persian Gulf. At least this time he's aboard ship and unlikely to go ashore.
Normally the only naval personnel to go ashore like that are corpsman, front line medics, who get assigned to Marine units. (Ask the Marines their opinion of those guys.) The Navy, however, which apparently taught him Arabic, sent him to help the Army in Iraqi Kurdistan do some glorified police work.
The ship he's assigned to was already in the Gulf (and in the news) so it looks like the Navy flew him to Bahrain last week to join the tour in progress. I told Mom and my brother about the reassignment but not the deployment.
I'm going to be very upset if the bloviating chickenhawks back here manage to get him in the way of a shooting war with Iran.
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