2 Weeks a Year? Finding Humor while deployed to Iraq

This is a different look at one soldiers deployment to Iraq in 2003. It highlights the thoughts and emotions of a "Civilian Soldier" suddenly thrust into deploying to Iraq with a National Guard unit.

Originally, this work was a series of emails sent to family members during the deployment. In order to keep them from worrying the focus was the more mundane and humorous moments of life while deployed. This is a work designed to pull those not familiar with the military into the deployment along with the author wondering what will happen next.