Happy Holidays from cold and muddy Tallil, Iraq. I am deployed here with the Air Force’s 332 AEW (Air Expeditionary Wing).

I am the Postmaster at our little Air Post Office.

Although we are not enjoying the frigid temps and mounds of snow that I left in Albert Lea almost 16 years ago, we are doing our best to avoid the mud and keep dry.

I myself never imagined that one day I’d be in this country, but I just finished my fifth week of a 120-day rotation and wonder where the time has gone.

I wanted to inform my fellow Albert Lea’ns the U.S. Air Force is alive and well, and we are all proud to serve all of you back home.

Tech Sgt James B. King, USAF

Tallil Air Base, Iraq

ALHS Class 1984