MONDAY, JANUARY 5th.

Day 238 of CPT Patti's trip to the Big Sandy. She has 56 more scheduled days in command.

She has been writing to me via email with more frequency since she returned to Baghdad (this is due, in part, to her learning what it is like to be in Germany - get bad news from the TV set and NO news from down range).

She began the pre-inventory on the 2d of January...just as scheduled. She says it is going well but that there is just a LOT of stuff.

Fortunately CPT Patti has just about the world's best supply sergeant, SGT Taylor, to help her.