Sent: -Sunday, May 29, 2005 2:40 PM

Subject: STEVE GAMM UPDATE

 Hey all,

I have arrived in the Bagdad area. I will be working for the next few months in a hot area SW of the city. Our FOB is named "Saint Michael's" and I hope he is going to help us himself. Later this week we will be sent on to a little more remote Co sized FOB so forgive me when I am not in touch as much. It will have to wait on trips here to Saint Michael's where I am now. It is pretty primitive for the living conditions so I am already looking forward to the rotation to somewhere else in the country.

There is no Brown & Root so there is no real chow hall, just MREs and an occasional

Mer-mite. We do have sodas and gator-aid. Also there is no AC or other nice things,

but there is an Internet connection. At the Co FOB there is nothing. It looks like a fun spot

so far. They had a shoot out at the gate here this morning and some sporadic fire about 500m outside the wire later on this afternoon.

The locals lost 8-9 guys today in what I think was a drive up RPG/ AK attack. I don't think they caught them, but I know they got the guys that hit the gate earlier. It made for a nice welcoming in. LOL Add another car to the junk car collection here. As for now, the tanks don't fit on the streets and canal roads so I don't think we will be using them for the near term much. I am waiting to see what the game plan is going to be. My guys seem ready so keep us in your prayers. I want to bring all of them home together and safe. The unit we are replacing did not do so well.

No King but Jesus,  

Me