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Casing the colors is a military tradition that entails encasing the unit's flag and their banners signaling the unit's movement. When the unit arrives at their new location, be it downrange or elsewhere, the Colors are "uncased" and displayed for as long as that unit maintains operations there. Will was glad to get out of it. They had to be there several hours before it was even supposed to start. That's the Army for you.
In regards to other deployment-related news I will be sending out an e-mail with Will's new address to relevant people when mail can start being sent. I'm a lot more hesitant in giving out information this time around than I was last time. Living abroad is a great experience, but it has also made me realize how big of a target we are. We are in a foreign country, directly representing the American government at a time when that same government seems to be doing everything it can to make us even bigger targets. Between that and the recent terrorist attacks on individual soldiers in the European Union in the last several months and threats in Bayern as well, I'm staying extra vigilant. It seems you don't have to go too far to hear some horror story about someone's hacked Facebook page, suspicious people hanging around taking pictures, getting targeted while off post. There was actually an incident at Edelweiss two days after we left. That's too close of a call for me. I think I'm at the point where I don't even want to allude to the deployment on Facebook. Anyone who needs to know, will know from other means. So bear with me, I want to keep you all informed but I'll only be posting things that have already been put out on official channels. If you want to follow Will's unit their FB page is www.facebook.com/WarEagles
Hope everybody's start of the week got off to a decent start. Monday's almost over! Can't believe the 4th is almost here. We will, of course, be celebrating with brats (American ones thank you). With budget constraints Grafenwöhr is one of the few posts that is retaining it's fireworks show this year but I doubt we'll get to make it with it not starting till 10 or so. I'd like to go but I'm not sure Liam would be able to fall asleep outside. What is everyone doing this year to celebrate the 4th?
