Good and Bad News

Yesterday was our monthly FRG meeting we got Good News and Bad News

Good News is that Drews unit is NO longer on a 15month tour, they are down to 12 and are expected home in June/July!!! There had been "talk" of this for months now but yesterday was the first official news and it came from the battalion commander

Drew is expected home Next month for his R&R! We were planing on going to Corpus Christy for a few days but threw a friend found a resort place only a few hours away. It has a water park, ect... We cant wait to go!

Now for the bad News. The battalion commander who just came from Washington informed us that the unit is in the worst area in both countries. In the 1st 100 days of the deployment we lost 17 soldiers and had 100+ wounded, as of now we have lost 25-30 soldiers (1 died on R&R in a car accident). As of right now the fighting is minimal because of weather so a lot of terrorist have retreated back, but once the snow clears things will pick up again.

So if you don't mind saying good thoughts, prayers, ect... for the unit I am sure they could all use it.