Ferrari Mailing List: NFC: Moving to Kuwait this week

[Fellippe Galletta (fellippe.galletta]

The ex-pat duties come calling again, and I'm going.

This time around I'll be moving to Camp Arifjan in Kuwait which is maybe 30 miles south of Kuwait City. I'll be stationed out of there for the most part but will travel to military installations in neighboring countries......Oman, UAE, Qatar, probably Iraq too. No Afghanistan I was told.

I'll be one of two Fire Protection engineers out there doing design and inspection work for facilities on these bases. I've done this sorta thing stateside when I lived in Charleston, SC and then on site when I lived in Diego Garcia. The work is fun, but the new location should be very interesting!

A lot of friends and family tend to see this as dangerous, mostly because of the state of the Middle East these days, ISIS, etc. Others I talk to that have served in the region or have done ex-pat activities there tell me Kuwait is a very safe and wealthy country, safer than America on average.

Won't be looking to get into trouble, and working 6 days a week should help with that. :)

I fly out on Friday, and I'll be back in a year with an R&R sometime in January. 

Will post some thoughts to the list after some time there.

Talk soon!

FG