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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | Finally got out of Iraq!
We are in Leipzig Germany for a few hours, then on to Bangor Maine, then on to Ft. Sill for a few days, then to our home station in TN for in-state processing, THEN HOME!
Man it is so nice to be out of that hole.
I wanted to thank everybody here for the support you have provided me and the other troops during this deployment, a lot of you here made it much more bearable.
THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Good to hear you made it out alive and well. Have a great break. |
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Location: Tennessee | Words cannot properly express the depth of our gratitude for your service. Have a well-deserved frosty one ...it'd be on me if I was there with you. Thanks. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | With bobbo!
Also, thanx for taking the time to share your grand news with us. Nothing like coming home!
Now... wear it out!!!  |
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Location: Indiana | Great news. Welcome home. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Awesome Michael! Can't wait to meet you at the next jam! |
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Location: Vernon CT | Great news Michelle! ;) |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Looking forward to meeting you next time I get to TN. Welcome home! |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Fantastic News! Thanks for your service and Welcome Home! |
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Location: East Tennessee | Mike, Great news!!!1 See you in a few weeks. |
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Location: Cincinnati | Originally posted by Capo Guy:
Mike, Great news!!!1 See you in a few weeks. +1 Hopefully I'll get to meet you too, Mike. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Jack,
Looking forward to it. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Welcome home Mike. Welcome home. |
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Location: Tuscany, Italy | Michael good to hear you are heading back home for a well deserved break !!
Great news. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Congrats and MANY thanks! Looking forward to meeting you one day! |
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Location: Ontario Canada | Hello Michael,
Many thanks for your service. You deserve the break.
Sleet at your feet and Maine in the rain.
40 degrees F. will be a welcome change.
Regards
Jim. |
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Location: Cincinnati | Originally posted by Capo Guy:
Jack,
Looking forward to it. Bassman Brad and I will be heading down as soon as Michelle gets his schedule together. I'll let you know. |
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Location: chicago | Welcome home OFC memeber #555 Its good to have you back in the states sir!Hoping the rest of our troops will soon follow! Jeff |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Welcome home and THANK YOU. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Did they give you a chance to drink some decent beer?
Glad to have you Home! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Thanks Man! |
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Location: Alagoas, Brazil | Congrats! Good to know you are back. Now, play it. |
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Location: Waurika OK | Hey, great news and thanks!
If you have time while at Ft. Sill go by Phillips Music Store, they had a big sign out front last week: Lots of Ovation, Takamine, and Guild guitars inside. (was headed to the Drs. office to get my 6 month shot and couldn't stop.)
Also Jerry's Guitars,(used) he claims to have 900 and lots of them are hanging on the wall.
glad you are safe. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | welcome home
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thank you |
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Location: Utah | Michael, glad you're on your way home. Thanks. |
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Location: Right now? | SO glad you're on your way home safe and sound, Mikey! Welcome back and as the others have written, THANK YOU!
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Willa |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | Well, here at Ft. Sill for a few days then on to Smyrna TN for Unit processing them home!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND FRIENDSHIP, YOU ALL HAVE BEEN A GREAT SOURCE OF MORALE BOOSTING WHILE I WAS GONE, I CNA'T THANKYOU ALL ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looking forward to meeting you guys.
Mike looking forward to seeing you and your lovely wife even sooner.
Jaquelyn, be prepared!
THANKS AGAIN EVERYBODY! |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Welcome home, Mike. And thank you for your service. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Awsome news Michael!!! Glad you are back on American soil. Just remember, your toughest "phase " is approuching very quickly.
You will soon, before you know it, have the biggest let down of your life, YOU, will be in the presence of the Jackbone and trusty side kick Babs! :D ;) :p |
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Location: Cincinnati | Originally posted by Michael R. Winters:
Well, here at Ft. Sill for a few days then on to Smyrna TN for Unit processing them home!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND FRIENDSHIP, YOU ALL HAVE BEEN A GREAT SOURCE OF MORALE BOOSTING WHILE I WAS GONE, I CNA'T THANKYOU ALL ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looking forward to meeting you guys.
Mike looking forward to seeing you and your lovely wife even sooner.
Jaquelyn, be prepared!
THANKS AGAIN EVERYBODY! Bring it on, Michelle! Let me know your schedule. You may have a surprise visitor when Brad and I show up. |
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Location: Cincinnati | Originally posted by BT717:
Awsome news Michael!!! Glad you are back on American soil. Just remember, your toughest "phase " is approuching very quickly.
You will soon, before you know it, have the biggest let down of your life, YOU, will be in the presence of the Jackbone and trusty side kick Babs! :D ;) :p As long as he gets that case of Dos Equis Verde he'll put up with the disappointment. |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | Can't wait.
We'll have Capo Guy come over too and have us a little welfare-sized jam at Casa de Bonekrosha.
Dos Equis Verde mi amigo, get it right:)
Jaquelyn, I'll give you a yell when I know more about actual home arrival time. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Welcome home, Mr.Winters. Now remove the uniform, put on some baggies and flip flops, grab a beer and your guitar, and let's play some music. |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | Dark, you don't know how close to the head you've hit it.
I wear either moccassins or flip flips and shorts pretty much year round.
I am definately ready to be home :) |
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Location: Cincinnati | Originally posted by Michael R. Winters:
Dark, you don't know how close to the head you've hit it.
I wear either moccassins or flip flips and shorts pretty much year round.
I am definately ready to be home :) I hope you wear a shirt. |
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Location: SoCal | This is a good thing Mike. Thank goodness I finally got that package mailed off a couple of weeks ago.
Now maybe you can put on some weight. Looked positively scrawny in that pic of you and your buddy that you sent.
Thanks for all you did "over there"..... |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | SCRAWNY ????
HA HA HA
They've got us crammed four to a room right now.
The little guy in my room is a tad over 200 lbs.
I plan on dropping a bunch of weight at the 7 month school I have to go in VA a month after I get back. |
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Location: Hanau, Hessen, Germany | You're going to school again? Remember to take German lessons ;) |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | I originally worked on Apache Attack Helicopters here in the Tennessee NAtional Guard but, the State decided to get rid of them.
As aresult, we Apache folk had to transfer to Kiowa Warrior Recon Helicopters last Sept.
So, I now get to spend a month at home, then go to Virginia for 7 months to learn how to work on a helicopter I've been working on since Sept and have spent 12+ hours a day, seven days a week working on for the past year.
Fun, Fun. |
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Location: Flahdaw | I always do better when they're teaching me something I already know. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Originally posted by Michael R. Winters:
So, I now get to spend a month at home, then go to Virginia for 7 months to learn how to work on a helicopter I've been working on since Sept and have spent 12+ hours a day, seven days a week working on for the past year.
Fun, Fun. So Michael, you should Ace it!! :D |
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Location: Cincinnati | Originally posted by Michael R. Winters:
I originally worked on Apache Attack Helicopters here in the Tennessee NAtional Guard but, the State decided to get rid of them.
As aresult, we Apache folk had to transfer to Kiowa Warrior Recon Helicopters last Sept.
So, I now get to spend a month at home, then go to Virginia for 7 months to learn how to work on a helicopter I've been working on since Sept and have spent 12+ hours a day, seven days a week working on for the past year.
Fun, Fun. But they want you to do it right for a change. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by kotadawg:
But they want you to do it right for a change.  Ouch! |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | HA HA HA
In Tennessee now, little more paperwork tomorrow and then a 3 hour bus ride back to our home station, then 20 minutes to the house!
Can't wait! |
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Location: Cincinnati | I think Loree took the kids and moved. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Great News Michael!!! |
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OT: WHOO HOO, In Germany !