Germany oh yeah!

Ok, so I left off in Germany just found an apartment 10 minutes from base, in the city of Ramstein-Meisenbach.  Well now i need to talk to the housing office and get some temporary furniture until I can find my own.  We had nothing furniture wise, not even a bed to sleep on.  Well lucky for me I found a furniture store that sells used furniture and happened upon the biggest bed I have ever seen.  It was bigger than a California King, how I know we still have the old mattresses, and a Cal King bed frame they don't fit, and it pisses me off.  So i found the furniture, and now i need to concentrate more on getting the wife out here to Germany.  Still working on her passport and getting my orders amended, this is the hardest thing ever to do when you are halfway across the world from your wife.
Well lets speed up just a little here, I finally got the wife out to Germany and we instantly became friends with the Landlords, the whole time she was gone the landlord was feeding me.  So now the wife is in Germany but I have no car to get around, not a problem.  So I look through the classifieds, and the "lemon lot" on base for a used car.  Well i found an '88 BMW 7 Series, I am rollin' in style, except that this car has no heat or air conditioning.  The guy told us it was broken and I had the money to get it fixed, 200 euro for the part, 200 euro to get it installed.  Well we get it fixed and we get on a normal work schedule, so I get qualified as a Security Forces Member.  I work for about six months and now find out i will be deploying in January, so i start working on everything to deploy.  I have computer based training (CBT's), legal stuff, and sending the wife back to the states.  Well the time has come to deploy and I have no idea what we are doing, all we know is we are going to Ft. Dix, New Jersey. Yes, this is an Army base and we are being trained by Army and Air Force personnel.
So a little background on Jersey during the winter, it is so cold there the trees freeze, literally.  The water freezes and our vehicles are frozen every morning when we wake up.  We have to use hammers and anything else we can find to pry doors open and chip off the ice so we can mount our weapons.  So there is you next teaser, more on my deployment training next time. Enjoy