I just got off the phone with Jennifer. She was calling from an Army installation at Camp Doha in Kuwait. Her plane, a Continental 777 flew into Kuwait City yesterday and she drove the 30 minutes to Camp Doha. She said that Kuwait City is just like any other large city in the world, except for the Arabic writing on all of the signs.

She will fly by military plane, probably a C-5 into Baghdad on Friday and will be assigned to one of the former military palaces of Saddam Hussein. Her unit will be installing a communications network for a miltary commander who will occupy the palace. She will be allowed to take pictures sitting on Saddam's throne and will be working in a secure area that is heavily fortified and well armed.

She will call as soon as she gets to Baghdad and is situated, hopefully by the weekend. I will get her address and she will be able to call home pretty routinely. Her MOS in communications has some perks that the ground units don't and having telephone rights is one of them. She had to call the Sacramento Army National Guard and then have them give her an outside line. She sounds in great spirits. Kuwait is 11 hours ahead of us, so she was getting ready to go to bed. She arrived yesterday morning in Kuwait City. I will update the blog as soon as I hear anything more.