The Numbers Game

447- days away from home
10,728- hours spent thinking about home
2- fire extinguishers used
7- job titles since arriving in Iraq
7- mission changes
2- times sent to combat stress therapy
32- books read
135- patrols/convoys
2- tires changed
3- vehicles stuck in mud
250- patients treated
53- times urinating on the road while on mission
1- brooms broken over roommate's arm
142- highest temperature reached
32- lowest temperature reached
3- longest straight days without sleep
56- muffins eaten at the DFAC
1- times our A/C has blown up
3-pairs of boots worn through
300- stress relieving visits to the gym
2- times vomited on
800-trips to the chow hall
50- times it was too hot/too cold/too far to walk to the chow hall
2- years of school missed
8- letters sent home
20- number of digits still on my hands and feet
122- pictures/posts to this site
15,349- visitors to this site
?- days left here
1- times I have said, "I love Iraq". (It was a joke)