Okinawa Paul Bryan Roach Deployments March 21, 2016 4 49It’s been a year and a half since the last post and there are some reasons for that, the most important...
Easter in Kandahar Paul Bryan Roach Deployments May 4, 2014 0 22Dear Family and friends, Greetings from Kandahar Air Field! I know it’s been a few months since my last posting,...
Kandahar Air Field Paul Bryan Roach Writing March 12, 2014 1 24Okay so we’ve been here several weeks now and it’s time I set about trying to start describing things. When we...
Troop Movement Paul Bryan Roach Deployments February 22, 2014 1 22So last we spoke we were at NAIACT getting trained up on Army principles. During that course we had two...
NIACT (Naval Individual Augmentee Combat Training) Paul Bryan Roach Deployments February 10, 2014 3 586The Navy is not a natural pick for service in Afghanistan because Afghanistan is a land-locked nation, one which would be...
NEMTI: Naval Expeditionary Medical Training Institute Paul Bryan Roach Deployments January 24, 2014 0 34Last week we spent in San Diego, “in-processing,” which means we were having all of our orders checked, our medical...
Moblization Paul Bryan Roach Deployments January 18, 2014 0 7The flight from Chicago landed at about 7:45 pm. In contrast to the rocky liftoff we had back home in...
Bon Voyage Paul Bryan Roach Deployments January 14, 2014 1 9Well, YESTERDAY was tough. After years of knowing that it would someday come to pass and after months of knowing...
“Kandahar Abbey” Paul Bryan Roach Deployments January 6, 2014 1 22It is a week before I have to climb onto a plane for a month of pre-deployment training; it will...
