Djibouti

Its been a bit over 2 weeks since I've been reactivated and placed onto Active Duty in the US Marine Corps. For those just checking in, I'm heading out to Djibouti in a couple of months with my unit.

I was activated on Saturday, 7 Jan and that day I boarded a Delta flight to where I had the (dis)pleasure of going to Djibouti for a pre-deployment visit. I was there for a week and met the people that we will be replacing. The Marines of the 3rd Provisional Security Company were really helpful to us, showing us everything and bending over backwards to provide us with all the help that we needed. They were all smiles and every Marine greeted us in a very cheerful manner. At first I thought it was my magnetic personality, but then I realized that we were their ticket out of there and were just excited to see us because we meant that they were getting closer to going home.

The Marines of the 3rd PSC showed me and my platoon commander around. We saw an abandoned Italian bunker, built during WWII. We saw the local live fire ranges. We also saw lots of camels and some baboons.