In preparation for deployment to Operation Iraqi Freedom 08.1, 4th Supply Battalion hosted three weeks of pre-deployment training in Quantico, VA in December.  Close to 800 Marines from 4th Marine Logistics Group came together from all around the nation (and Puerto Rico) to train.  It was so cold there, reminiscent of  The Basic School.  We departed Quantico just in time for Christmas, and then off to Camp Pendleton early January to begin work in our active duty assignments.   

 

I have been given the opportunity to serve with the 1st Marine Logistics Group (1st MLG, formerly FSSG) as the G-4 Supply Officer in Taqaddum, Iraq.

TQ, as it is commonly referred to, is located on the Northeast corner of Lake Habbaniyah, just West of Fallujah, and serves as the Headquarters for the MLG.  This is a very big logistics air base that supports I MEF units throughout the Al Anbar Province.  It is nice cool weather right now, but in a couple of months, it will be warm and then unbearably hot.  But it's a "dry heat" I hear.  I will be here for one year, so I refuse to count down the days for fear that it will seem like forever.