Awesome news. Go out and celebrate with him wpr!

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that was beautiful. thank yoiu.

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We we joking about that this morning when he was in Germany heading for NJ. At least in A-stan he still was armed, kevlar vest and helmet and could defend himself.

We decided NOT! No more 104 degree days for him unless he takes a road trip out west.

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104 degrees.......bring him to Green Bay for a 10 days in December.......10 days MIGHT add up to 104 degrees!!!
WELCOME HOME DAVID!!!

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I am not sure which airline hauled him around. I do know that they had to deplane 3 times before leaving A-stan due to mechanical prob.
My youngest brother use to have his commercial pilots lic and I told him that. He was really surprised. I suggested that it could have been the same prob and not 3 different prob. I figure if you get sand up the wazoo it is hard to get it out. Same for the planes. Perhaps the mechanics thought they had the screens cleaned out and the lines clear only to find out they still had mechanical difficulties.
Since the plane did not go down between A-stan and Kyrgyzstan I don't care which airline he was on.

By the way, I thought about posting updates but just decided to wait it out till he was boots on ground here.

I have lost all track of the days but he flew out of Kandahar some time on Th the 27th. He called us from Kyrgyzstan Friday. No he was online early Friday morning our time and he spoke to his mother. (I was up until around 1 am CST trying to find him and she got up around 3 am or so.) She saw him online about 5 am our time. K-stan is 12 hr ahead of us so that would have been 5 pm there.
They then had to wait a day MOL to catch their next flight to Germany. The Top SGT called his wife from Germany. That was about 4 am this morning letting her know where they were and to which part of the States they would be heading for. (On the way out they went thru Maine. On his R&R flight it was thru Atlanta both ways.) She sent us an email around 6 am.
Then we got his phone call around 3 pm.
He picked up a prepaid phone while on R&R. Since he did not use it for 6 months the phone co gave away his number but when he called them they patched him thru to us and we spoke for about 2 mins. The woman was still on the line because when he told us that he would have to call someone to get a new number assigned to his phone, she broke in and told him that she would help him get the new number.

I am sure we will hear more from him tomorrow.

Thank you to all for your prayers and support. It means a lot to us all.

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Check outside tomorrow. Ft McCoy is outside Tomah. Your weather just might heat up this week.

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great news, wpr. i hope time moves at a snail's pace while you're with your son. please send him my gratitude & a hug too.

WPR.. best news I have heard in a while.. give that boy a salute for me when you see him.

May all his brothers and sisters in arms follow him safely home.

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congrats on the recent freedom from constant worry.

Thank your son for us.

It is men like he,
that posts at the wall so that all of us may be free...
It is men like he,
That allow us to relax and be without worry...
It is men like he,
And women like she....

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