Hey everyone
Ok we will try this again n maybe I won't hit the wrong button n delete it !!!!!
I'm in my 4th year over here. I make about 94,000$ a year. I get paid 1 time a month . Some months are 4 week months at about 7500$ and some are 5 week months at about 9300$ . I work 12 hours or more a day and get paid by the hour 7 days a week. I get a RNR (vacation) every 4 months . The first 80,000 is tax free. Everything is supplied . Meals Lodgeing Trans . The food is really a lot better than I thought it would be . I eat in the military defacts (cafe) with the military. It's dangerous you can get killed or hurt or captured.I have my own room now .
The first 6 months I lived in the same 15 by 15 room with 3 other smelly people !!!! Some sleep in a tent but not any more. No camels here in Baghdad but south of here on the way to KUWAIT there are huge herds of them. Ive been passed by other convoys on the highway only to see them blown up a half a mile in front of me. Burning wrecked fuel tanker trucks Hum-Vees ect ect .. I've worked with people from all over world and enjoyed it. The only reason I will quit next year n come home is because I miss running my own truck n my own bussiness and being out on my own.
I've used the money to improve my trucking bussiness and equipment. I've replaced everything except my ol Pete because it has seen me through 3 divorces and ran and kept me in bussiness when I did'nt have the money to maintain it. But it has all been customized now and I'm real proud of it. I have a new wife now that is a Chinese National that was born n raised in Mainland China and is the best thing that ever happened to me. She is in the USA finally and wants me to quit n come home to be with her.
That will be a easy way for all of you to spot me out on the street. There won't be too many long blonde haired guys out there with a young chinese lady in the truckstops. The job has been a real blessing for me because I was bored with driveing my truck in the states and really was'nt makeing the money I wanted to with the flat-bed I had so now by buying this detach (RGN) and later a step deck or a car haulin trailer and haveing my own authority and doing the broker authority as well makeing a liveing should be easier. Thats why I'm try'n to keep track of whats going on back there.
The website for this job is (
www.kbrjobs.com) they have a addin the military newspaper Stars n Stripes that they are hireing people . I chased this job through the internet and finally got a phone number for a requiter and got hired after about 4 months of e-mails n callin them every 2 weeks !!!! If you can't take being away from home for 4 months at a crack then I would'nt do this. I had no wife and no family and no nothing so it did'nt really bother me. I was used to being gone for 2 or 3 months at a time anyway.
But it was different even for me to understand after I got here that I could'nt just fire up the truck n leave !!!! You are here !!! You can quit n go home but then you loose your job if it's not a RNR. The first 2 years I hardly made a trip fromBaghdad to Kuwait that I did'nt get the windshiel shot through n shattered. When I first got here and was assigned a truck I was cleaning it and could'nt get the glass to stop comeing out from under the dash !!! That was a eree feeling.
My supervisor came out n said he had never seen such a clean truck. I asked him about the glass n he just smiled n said I'd understand later !!!!! I guess thats why the windshield looked so new !!! Because it was new !!! The heat is really some-thing. I've seen 139 degrees . You haft to stay in the AC as much as possible. It's really nice here in the winter about like Miami.
I'm here if ya'll have any questions ???
Steve--jonboy-Ggal-furbus sorry it took me so long but I've been a little busy the last couple of days .
Stay Safe Ya'LL
ANOTHER WONDERFULL DAY IN BAGHDAD !!!!!
