LSA CrewWarriors, families and friends of EMFK, it's October 2, 2009, and life is good in Kuwait. While most people think of Kuwait as dry and hot, it actually has seasons, dry and hot most of the time, dry and really hot, dry and not so hot, and wet and cold (60-80degrees). We are, like most of you, experiencing fall now. The air is crisp, and while not cool (except in our berthing where we’re freezing our behinds off), it's cooler, the sun rises later and sets earlier, and just looks like fall. We don’t have any trees to speak of, so no bright fall orange, red and yellow leaves, and the sand, well, the sand is the sand.
We recently had the unexpected departure of a large part of the command in returning back home. As we were working with the chain of command to input our requirements for the next detachment (Juliet), many of our current Nobel Eagle numbers (the numbers our orders are generated from), were terminated along with unused Nobel Eagle numbers from our proposed Juliet det. Thus, many of our warriors that had been here from July on were unexpectedly ordered back to their parent command, or to ECRC. While this caused a lot of commotion, and initial shock, all of the EMFK warriors rapidly adjusted fire, and either packed up and headed home to participate in the War on Terror from CONUS, or reset their actions here, and again, hit the deck running in providing excellent medical care to our patients, keeping themselves and the command 100% ready for everything, and continuing to improve how we do business in creating a culture of operational and organizational excellence.
To those headed home, they go with their heads held high, knowing they contributed to the War on Terror, and did their nations business well. While we miss them, and wish them fair winds and following seas, we know they will continue to kick butt and take names wherever they land.
For those that remain at EMFK, they continue to prosecute our mission full out. And with a couple of small course corrections, we are fully operational, fully capable, and fully engaged in the business of taking care of fellow warriors. I am extremely proud of all the warriors of India detachment.
We are halfway though India’s time in the sand, and have accomplished many great things. Several of our warriors have deployed forward to Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places. They did or are doing great work. Our clinics continue to provide outstanding care to the permanent party warriors here in Kuwait, and those that transit through to other locations. We continue to adjust our staffing to meet the mission, and are getting leaner and meaner as we go. We have looked at all our processes and reworked or canceled those that weren’t doing what we needed, and we’ve trained both medically and in the combat related skills we need to survive in a combat zone. We learned from the 1st round of H1N1, and are ready for any waves that follow. In short, we are ready. Period.
Thanks to all of you for your continued support our EMFK and it's amazing warriors. We couldn’t do what we do without you having our backs.
Till next time.
CAPT Welling
CO, EMFK
We recently had the unexpected departure of a large part of the command in returning back home. As we were working with the chain of command to input our requirements for the next detachment (Juliet), many of our current Nobel Eagle numbers (the numbers our orders are generated from), were terminated along with unused Nobel Eagle numbers from our proposed Juliet det. Thus, many of our warriors that had been here from July on were unexpectedly ordered back to their parent command, or to ECRC. While this caused a lot of commotion, and initial shock, all of the EMFK warriors rapidly adjusted fire, and either packed up and headed home to participate in the War on Terror from CONUS, or reset their actions here, and again, hit the deck running in providing excellent medical care to our patients, keeping themselves and the command 100% ready for everything, and continuing to improve how we do business in creating a culture of operational and organizational excellence.
To those headed home, they go with their heads held high, knowing they contributed to the War on Terror, and did their nations business well. While we miss them, and wish them fair winds and following seas, we know they will continue to kick butt and take names wherever they land.
For those that remain at EMFK, they continue to prosecute our mission full out. And with a couple of small course corrections, we are fully operational, fully capable, and fully engaged in the business of taking care of fellow warriors. I am extremely proud of all the warriors of India detachment.
We are halfway though India’s time in the sand, and have accomplished many great things. Several of our warriors have deployed forward to Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places. They did or are doing great work. Our clinics continue to provide outstanding care to the permanent party warriors here in Kuwait, and those that transit through to other locations. We continue to adjust our staffing to meet the mission, and are getting leaner and meaner as we go. We have looked at all our processes and reworked or canceled those that weren’t doing what we needed, and we’ve trained both medically and in the combat related skills we need to survive in a combat zone. We learned from the 1st round of H1N1, and are ready for any waves that follow. In short, we are ready. Period.
Thanks to all of you for your continued support our EMFK and it's amazing warriors. We couldn’t do what we do without you having our backs.
Till next time.
CAPT Welling
CO, EMFK
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