Getting ready to head out soon

Hey all,
Well the time has come and my pass ends tomorrow. I have my deployment ceremony tomorrow starting around 1400 in Fayetteville at the Crown Coliseum. After the ceremony we are headed to Ft. Bragg to finish up packing and its time to play the hurry up and wait game. But once we get the call on when we are leaving will head down to green ramp to load the plane bound for Kuwait. We will be there for a little while before we make our journey into Iraq and get settled into our Area of Operation. Where I will be for the next 9 months or so. I am very thankful that my family could make it down to see me off, I just wished that my other family could have made it down so see me off as well. I have had good time while they were down. We did alot of driving picking everyone up from Raleigh which is about a 2 hour drive one way from the house. Yuck!!! But we have made it through. Once I get settled in I will get my address out to everyone. Please dont hesitate to write. Any mail is good mail. I hope everyone is doing well, god bless and I love yall.

Home for a few days

Well as some of you may already know I have left California and have had a few days at the house. My leave hasnt really gone the way that I have planned but I am making the best of it. My parents and grandparents have finally arrived and we are spending some much needed time together. But unfortunately my pass will end and I will have to report back to Ft. Bragg to start getting ready fly into Kuwait sometime around mid to late april. Im hoping it will be sooner than later. I will be gone for around 9 months. I will post more when I finally get to Kuwait and post my address once I get into Iraq and get settled into my new home for the next 9 months. I love you all and god bless.

Kyle

Having a Blast in NTC

As you know I am still in California and the National Training Center in Ft. Irwin, CA. There really isnt anything out here except the Mojave Dessert. So I have taken some pics of my time in the box (in the field) living at FOB Miami and running missions out of there to our town AL Sharq and living there for a few days. I come out of the box sometime on the 26th of this month and them prep to go back to Ft. Bragg for a little more training and some much needed time off with the family. I hope everyone is doing good, i love yall and god bless.

Getting use to Cali

Ok so i sent out an update yesterday on my status. I have yet another change to this. As we are getting settled in here, we are getting into the swing of things with vehicle draws and getting them prepped with equipment, and ready to go to our FOB (Forward Operating Base) out in the dustbowl in the desert, and getting our personal equipment prepped as well. I find myself getting more excited with everyday that passes, for the simple fact that I will be in the field soon doing my job and running my squad in conducting combat operations. And that we are only here for a little more than 3 months and that will complete my training in other states. We will then return back to Ft. Bragg and hopefully get some much needed time off to spend time with Chase, Tannah and family. Then its off to Iraq for a little while. This will be my 4th deployment in 10 years. Which really isnt too bad.

I also have an update to my address, the building # has changed and my unit has been added.

Rotation 09-05
ATTN: SSG Peterson, Kyle D
B co 1/120th CAB
BLDG 306
South Depot Loop Rd
Ft. Irwin, CA 92310

I hope everyone is doing well and God Bless!!!!

UPDATE

As you all may already know I have left Camp Shelby, MS and headed National Training Center (NTC) in Ft. Irwin, CA. I arrived early this morning and am getting use to my new home for the next month. I am very excited to be here as NTC is one of the best trainging sites that the military has to offer for modern urban dessert combat today. I am surrounded by mountains which makes me feel kinda like home. lol I will post some pics of camp shelby, MS hopefully soon, but wanted to get an update out to you all letting you know I have moved. My address here is
Rotation 09-05
ATTN: SSG Peterson, Kyle D
BLDG 860
South Depot Loop Rd
Ft. Irwin, CA 92310

I will only be here for about 30 days and dont know if the mail will follow me to Bragg or if it will get returned to you. Every piece of mail is encouraged. I love you all and miss you all very much

Kyle

UPDATE!!

Hello Everyone.. Since it seems that I am the admin of Kyles blog and can really say one of his biggest fans I just thought that I would give you an update on what he is doing. Mom and Tannah can also give you more information. (add comments to this post so all can read). Kyle has been in "mobilization mode" for a couple of months now. He is doing great and seems to be having a good time. I love getting emails and text messages from him so that I can keep up with how he is doing. He has been in training to learn to drive the bradleys. He seems to be having fun with it. He goes to a ton of squad leader meetings and when we are talking at night seems to have to kick me off so he can go to those all the time. I am sure that he wouldn't mind if you email him and keep up with him. I hope that we can keep updating the blog so that he can read comments and keep all of us up to date. Here is a photo of Tannah and Kyle on their recent 36 hour leave. They seemed to have a good time!! Tannah can go into detail if she likes!

Christmas here in NC was a good one. We spent it with Tannahs family and they have truely made it a good one. Chase got alot of toys and cloths from the many that love him. Here are some pics from christmas day.