It has been a while since I last posted here.
You were asking about Son. I got an e-mail from him yesterday, he said that he was hot, dusty and bored. There being little activity around where he is in the "big sand box" (my term, not his). In a second e-mail he said that he'd lost count of the number of missions he had been in. He will be moving from his current camp to another one shortly but he did not say just where he is in Iraq.
He sent on a photo with his first e-mail, he looked pretty healthy and, if my eyes didn't deceive me, he's a sergeant from the device on his boony cap.