After an extra night in Texas (at the Gaylord Texan, which is really nice despite a really gay name) we finally made it to Kuwait on one very old, and very broken L-1011-500. We had to turn around due to some problem with a wing or something on first attempt, the second time we didn’t even get on the runway when a hydraulic pump shit the bed, someone hit it with a hammer and we were good to go. Something tells me the FAA probably wouldn’t have approved that aircraft for flight had it not just been full of government property – aka soldiers. Gotta love the .gov. Anyway, I’m in Kuwait right now, should be back in Iraq shortly. Oh joy.