BOB ON FOB and Stuff

All right So here is the latest "BOB ON FOB". We do have the luxury of having hot showers..(as long as the city of Mosul doesn't shut our water off). Really I just thought it was funny because...it...just...is!

Some of the best medics in Iraq! From left to right...SPC Simite, 1LT Hargrave, SPC Crowell, MAJ Manson, SPC Mousseau, SFC Farmer, PFC McCorry. I currently have 32 medics that I control and we try to rotate them through the aid station to give them a little break from the line. I do have a great group of guys. If you add up all our deployments we have a collective 16yrs of deployment between all of us. People wander why Soldiers are getting out of the Army!

"Monopoly Deal"...Probably one of the greatest games ever invented. We usually play about 5-10 games a DAY! Its what we do when we aren't doing....

Yes feast your eyes on this little beauty! This little puppy was 3 days in the making. You could stick the swab in about an inch. Probably the worst case of mercer I have ever...what...no...there was a worst case but that story just has to be told in person.

This one is after the surgery. We had to take a pretty large chunk out of this poor Soldier. But hey there is more to being a medical officer than just going to meetings. Doc lets me help out and its a blast. (the smell was probably the worst)

We dont have much out here but we do our best to put on a little spread for our out going Doc! Thats right our fearless Doc is heading out of the Army and on to a life of no deployments, real food, his own office, and not having to worry about anything Army. (the Army did pay for all his schooling and training so really not a bad deal)

We bought Doc Manson a little crystal plaque. Just something he can put on his shelf in his soon to be new doctor's office in Seattle.

...and of course you cant be in Cav without a stetson. He really did like it.

We are defiantly going to miss MAJ (DOC) Manson. We are all jealous of him that he gets to go but he defiantly deserves it. He has done his time and is getting out and on to bigger and better things. We are on the down hill slope and cant wait to wrap up this "deployment" (if you can call it that)