A Little About Sniper

For those of you who followed me over from my Old Blog, the nickname I used for D on the other blog "Sniper", well he isn't a true "Sniper." If memory serves me correctly, he somehow earned the call sign the last time he was there and it has stuck with him ever since. However, he shoots extremely accurate. I wouldn't want to be on the other end of his scope. I wanted to let those of you in on what Sniper's MOS is. He has been an MP for the last 14 years in the Marine Corps and is a Career Marine. Can you say 6 more years until retirement. However, with this deployment he didn't deploy with the same Unit he was with for OIF II. He ended up with another one. Prior to this deployment he was supposed to be getting orders for Recruiting Duty. Now that will have to wait until he comes home. Another fun ride..... His deployment orders came about 6 weeks before he left. Not a lot of time to prepare, but he has done this before. He has been deployed to Iraq once before (10 months) and to Somalia twice in the early 90's. This is nothing new to him being in Iraq, but it is very new to me being on this side of it with him. He is assigned to the 1st MLG HQ Co, BSSG 1 (changes to CLR 17 June 2006) . Currently he is serving in the Al Anbar Province Area and is doing Security Patrol for one of the bigger bases. With that being said, there is talk of disbanning the unit soon. There are a few options that are available and we are not sure which direction he will be headed for. Option 1) EOD Security. This is one of my least favorite, but it's what he is made of. Option 2) Connecting up with another MP Unit. This is his least favorite. Why? He would be actually be spending a majority of the time on the Base. Option 3) Can't remember, but very similar to what he is doing now. Option 4) Coming home a lot earlier than expected. He is on a double rotation, 12 to 14 months instead of the usual 7 months. This is the one option I won't believe until I see it. He made a promise that he won't come home until every last of his Marines he deployed with are home. He wants to dismiss them. Until then, he will continue on with the missions. He spends a lot of time outside of the wire and it scares the shit out of me, but I have faith in him. In him as a Marine and him as a person. Dyzgoneby