Photo By Creighton Holub | Soldiers assigned to the Long Knife Brigade and other supporting units at Contingency...... read more read more
By Spc. Creighton Holub
4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE ADDER, Iraq – While every New Year's Eve party marks the passage of time, the celebration at the Contingency Operating Base Adder Memorial Hall had a little more meaning for the Soldiers stationed here.
"We're in the year that we're going home," said Pvt. Lindsay Welsh of Chino, Calif., assigned to the 10th Combat Support Hospital.
Instead of spending the night on the internet, talking with Family members or maintaining her average of reading one book per day, the combat medic rang in 2009 at a party with her friends and a couple hundred coalition Soldiers.
"I'm happy to be mingling, and I'm out of my [barracks]," Welsh added.
Enjoying the company, Spc. Joy Olmstead, another 10th CSH medic from Omaha, Neb., scratched another day off her calendar. "I'm one day closer to going home now," Olmstead said.
Staff Sgt. Edwin Joa, a supply specialist assigned to the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, was pleased to have found fellow Soldiers for the celebration.
"It was a coincidence that I was here instead of [Forward Operating Base] Hunter," said Joa, who is normally stationed at the remote FOB working with the Iraqi border patrol only a few miles from the Iraq-Iran border. "I will be able to say that I remember where I was on New Year's Eve. This isn't home, but I am making the best of it with my fellow Soldiers and friends."
| Date Taken: | 01.01.2009 |
| Date Posted: | 01.02.2009 10:53 |
| Story ID: | 28384 |
| Location: | TALLIL AIR BASE, IQ |
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