 well i thought so i mean you know actually you think about it i was there for three years and about the second year you get homesick i couldn't afford to fly home and i didn't really have a girlfriend at the time but you know my mom and dad were still there and remember standing on the beach in the winter time over there in my shorts enjoying life and thinking where's the snow but it was it was a good assignment i mean i was with the 25th infantry division i was with the 65th combat engineer battalion which was their motto was first in and last out