Saturday, July 19, 2008

You can see my recliner chair in the background that I bought off Werner when he left in May. It has been pretty nice to say the least but since I can't have it at home I am giving it to Brian.
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DAD said...

In Alaska there was a huge local buy and sell economy...people coming, leaving, needing stuff. But certainly the military would not let people bring large items like recliners as part of your personal gear. So how do things like recliners get there?

July 29, 2008 at 7:30 PM
David said...

That may sound reasonable but it is not correct :) After a unit is notified of a pending deployment one of the first things done is to estimate how many shipping containers they will need and put in a request for that amount. Of course you are going to error on the plus side (you don't want to not be able to fit something you need) so there is always extra room. Coming over we had several almost empty containers and quite a few that were only half full. Most people don't bring a lot of stuff because the living quarters are tight (unless you have your own room) and they don't want to deal with all the stuff, but there isn't a lot of restrictions on what you can't bring. At least that is how our unit has been the last two deployments but it may be a whole different story with other units. I think in the long run the military figures it is a whole lot easier to give units what they request rather than trying to micro-manage just to save a few dollars on shipping.

July 30, 2008 at 8:01 PM

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