8 days till l go to houston for kbr

[Flying Scotsman]

right will try this again no oppinions please as lam going to Iraq and nothing anybody says will change my mind so here gose......... well just spoke to houston today my recruiter sames a nice guy and has been phoneing me once a week since they got my police checks and l got my date to start orriontaion oh what is 19th of feb but leve the UK on the 17th for houston which cant come soon enough not that l want away from my wife or nothing l think that my time in houston will be pretty boring and so will the flights but heres hoping there not .....time at first moved very slow but know it just seems to be flying by trying to spend as much time with my wife and dogs as possible have been told that l get few weeks of after about 4months so the plan is for my wife to fly to DUBIA with my golf clubs and spend it there with her and play some golf to chill out......

[crankyazz]

sent you a pm

[yoopr]

Instead of that 7 Star in Dubai go to Al Bustan Rotana(5 star).
Amazing place and I still have some of there Stationery and phone number
It's in the UAE as you know and the number is 971(4)282 0000
Website is WWW.ROTANA.COM

I wish Houston was closer or I'd hop in my truck and say Howdy.
Maybe Heavenbound or other Texans on this board can send you off or pay you a visit.

[Flying Scotsman]

yoorp thnx for that but think heavenbound would be tempting fate to much but seriously would be good if l could met some of the guys of the board so if any of u guys are going to be in Houston after the 19Th Feb would be cool to hook up and have a few beers and put face to names

[yoopr]

be careful with those beers in Houston-They kind of frown on it but that's usually when guys get stupid and overdo it.

Tick Toc :P
Reality will set in when they give you a cotton swab and tell you to rub it hard on your Gums to get DNA :P

[Flying Scotsman]

well only 6days left now the wee tummy is start to get lots of butterflys .........party night tonite all my freinds and family are coming to see me before l go was planing to have alot off beers but on reflection would not be alot as havnt drunk for for yrs so think it will be a pack of wine gum and l would probaly anybodys think l will have few beers but not alot cause l dont want to blow chunks.............will be good to see everybody before l go and catch up with whats happening with them and of course they all think lam mad for chossing KBR instead of seimens in canada but as john wayne said a mans got to do what a mans got to do

[yoopr]

Butterflies are normal
Houston Orientation is so fast-paced in reflection it goes by in a snap.

[greg3564]

Be careful over there.

U.S. contractor shot by U.S. forces near base
Truck driver for KBR killed in an ‘escalation of force incident,’ military says


Updated: 6:57 p.m. CT Feb 10, 2007
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military confirmed on Saturday that American forces at Camp Anaconda, the huge air base north of Baghdad, shot and killed a civilian contract truck driver.

A spokeswoman for KBR, a contracting subsidiary of Halliburton that was formerly known as Kellogg, Brown & Root, said the shooting was under investigation.

Melissa Norcross, the KBR spokeswoman, said the company was not releasing the name of the dead driver or a second person in the truck who was wounded “to protect the individuals’ privacy.”

In Baghdad, Lt. Cmdr. Bill Speaks said, “There was an escalation of force incident at Camp Anaconda on Feb. 5 (Monday) that resulted in the death of a civilian contractor. The incident is under investigation by the Army Criminal Investigation Division and KBR.”

An escalation of force incident normally means a driver approaching a checkpoint did not respond to military orders to approach slowly and stop.

“Sadly, 98 KBR employees and subcontractors have lost their lives, and more than 430 have been wounded by hostile action while performing services under the company’s government contracts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait,” Norcross said in an e-mail response to queries about the incident.

Halliburton is spinning off KBR into its own separate, publicly traded entity.

[yoopr]

Be careful over there.

U.S. contractor shot by U.S. forces near base
Truck driver for KBR killed in an ‘escalation of force incident,’ military says


Updated: 6:57 p.m. CT Feb 10, 2007
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military confirmed on Saturday that American forces at Camp Anaconda, the huge air base north of Baghdad, shot and killed a civilian contract truck driver.

A spokeswoman for KBR, a contracting subsidiary of Halliburton that was formerly known as Kellogg, Brown & Root, said the shooting was under investigation.

Melissa Norcross, the KBR spokeswoman, said the company was not releasing the name of the dead driver or a second person in the truck who was wounded “to protect the individuals’ privacy.”

In Baghdad, Lt. Cmdr. Bill Speaks said, “There was an escalation of force incident at Camp Anaconda on Feb. 5 (Monday) that resulted in the death of a civilian contractor. The incident is under investigation by the Army Criminal Investigation Division and KBR.”

An escalation of force incident normally means a driver approaching a checkpoint did not respond to military orders to approach slowly and stop.

“Sadly, 98 KBR employees and subcontractors have lost their lives, and more than 430 have been wounded by hostile action while performing services under the company’s government contracts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait,” Norcross said in an e-mail response to queries about the incident.

Halliburton is spinning off KBR into its own separate, publicly traded entity.

Why did you put this down when Everybody who knows about Truck driving in Iraq knows that this happens on a regular Basis and we all know about KIA and WIA PLUS , again, you don't read, or you Ignore, what the Originator of this Thread Said:

right will try this again no oppinions please as lam going to Iraq and nothing anybody says will change my mind so here gose

Halliburton "Spun off KBR" a long time ago

well only 6days left now the wee tummy is start to get lots of butterflys .........party night tonite all my freinds and family are coming to see me before l go was planing to have alot off beers but on reflection would not be alot as havnt drunk for for yrs so think it will be a pack of wine gum and l would probaly anybodys think l will have few beers but not alot cause l dont want to blow chunks.............will be good to see everybody before l go and catch up with whats happening with them and of course they all think lam mad for chossing KBR instead of seimens in canada but as john wayne said a mans got to do what a mans got to do

BOL to you. You have got bigger cajones than I do. 8)

[jpb]

Flying Scotsman, Gods speed and good luck to you.I wish I was in Texas I'd like to buy you a big steak dinner.Thanks, Jim

[yoopr]

Flying Scotsman, Gods speed and good luck to you.I wish I was in Texas I'd like to buy you a big steak dinner.Thanks, Jim

I would too but Houston is a LONG way from me but Houston Orientation is so jammed Packed there isn't much free time to do much.

[Goin Fer It]

May the Lord protect you and keep you safe over there!

Goin Fer Its' Wife

[Flying Scotsman]

well thnx for the blessing and just one thing if u cant take me for steak dinner can send me the money for it just jokeing its the scotsman in me short arms and deep pockets well just a wee up date well still getting over the hang over from satarday nitght god was l drunk woke up on sunday with a wee man and his jack hammer in my head and he would not go on strike nomater how many pills l took :? :? :? but only got 4days till l fly out to houston and by god lam getting exicited so from what lam hearing wont have much time to do anything in houston so with any luck time will move pretty fast....so lam off now to take some more pills to try and get this wee man to go on strike..................

[yoopr]

Houston is a little over 1400 miles south of me

[Jackrabbit379]

Houston is a little over 1400 miles south of me

I'm sure it's closer from me to you, than it is from me to Houston. :P

[FourHeartsTrucking]

FS...Be safe over there...I just read this!
May God keep you safe!!
February 13, 2007


KBR trucker killed by friendly fire in Iraq



The family of an American trucker working as a contractor in Iraq wants to know why he was shot and killed in February by friendly fire.

Officials from Kellogg, Brown & Root confirmed to Land Line that a contract trucker was fatally shot at a checkpoint outside of Camp Anaconda in Balad, Iraq, on Feb. 5. Another KBR driver who was injured was treated and released from the Air Force Theater Hospital.

“As this matter is presently under investigation, it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time,” said Melissa Norcross, a spokeswoman for Halliburton, KBR’s parent company.

Patrick Greenfelder, an attorney representing the Tolfree family, identified the dead trucker as Donald Tolfree, 52, of St. Charles, MI. Greenfelder told Land Line Magazine the family had several questions about the incident.

Greenfelder said a KBR representative called Kristen Martin, Tolfree’s 22-year-old daughter, at 2 a.m. one day and said her father and another convoy driver had been killed by a roadside bomb. The KBR representative later called Tolfree’s daughter and told her U.S. forces had killed her father. Martin also later learned the other driver had survived, Greenfelder said.

Greenfelder said KBR officials told Martin that Tolfree entered a checkpoint at the camp before stopping. Tolfree turned his truck around and was approaching the checkpoint again when he was shot.

The Tolfree family hasn’t heard from the U.S. government and details from KBR have been sketchy, Greenfelder said.

“We don’t know the facts of what happened,” Greenfelder said. “What we want are answers… what do they have to hide? Give her the facts about what happened to her father.”

At least 30 truck drivers working for KBR or Halliburton have been killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom since 2003, according to the icasualties.org Web site.

Norcross said 98 KBR employees and subcontractors have been killed and more than 430 had been wounded in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait.

– By Charlie Morasch, staff writer
charlie_morasch@landlinemag.com

[TruckerTony]

Hey Yoopr...please pm me for questions I have about Iraq. I cannot pm you. Thanks

[USMCRebelGuardnU]

I'll be getting out of the Marines in another two years. Anybody able to give me an idea of the pay from KBR for driving, and if they'd hire without driving experience? Thanks.

- Mark

[yoopr]

No they won't hire you for truck driving in Iraq without experience