Deployment To Afghanistan

I hope this email finds all of you happy and healthy, enjoying the start of fall.  I am writing to let you all know that I will be deploying to Afghanistan at the end of October with the First Medical Battalion from Camp Pendleton, CA.  In my role as a critical care nurse, I will be working on a forward operating base as part of a Forward Resuscitative Surgical team.   Along with a trauma surgeon, anesthesiologist, several corpsman and Marines, I will be helping to provide stabilizing treatment to wounded Americans and coalition forces and members of the Afghan National Army before they are transferred to the large hospitals and eventually medically evacuated.  I also hope to have the chance to provide enroute care, transporting patients from the forward operating bases to the large Role III hospital at Camp Bastion. 

I will be finishing up my training with the Marines in the coming week and then will pack my sea bags and depart for Afghanistan just before Halloween.  I will be over there for about 7 months, returning in May of next year.  While I'm gone, I will hopefully have access to my personal email address and facebook account.  

 

I will also be able to receive mail, letters, care packages, etc.  It takes about 10 days for mail to reach the forward bases in Afghanistan and packages mailed in those USPS flat rate boxes tend to be delivered fastest.  

LT Albero

 

My Niece, who was a straight "A" Student all throughout High School and College, chose to serve our country after college. Her Parents, both United States Coast Guard Academy Graduates, (Class of 1980) and her Uncle, (ME) couldn't be more proud.