“Just Wanna Keep Deploying”

Cyprus was my first deployment and right on, excellent, we get to go and get a medal and do all that and Cyprus, looking back we used to think, “Oh my God, this is like a hard tour.” We were just monitoring the line for twelve hours at a time and other than that we are seeing Cyprus. For a first deployment it was, you couldn’t ask for any better. You meet new people. You meet new places and it gives you that little, it’s like a hook on the end of a worm, you know, you just get that little nibble and you just want more. And then you turn and we call it a tour junkie. You just wanna keep deploying. Talking to people and, you know, talking to the old people and they are like, “Oh thank you, thank you!” and it’s like that everywhere, every tour I’ve been to since. When you talk to the old people they really get why you are there. It’s just the younger ones, they are more influential and you can talk them into a lot more stuff but the older people, I had a lady come up to me in ‘99 in Bosnia that recognized me in ’96 and she came up and gave me a hug and that’s why you do it.