Girlfriend's son turned over his company to a replacement two weeks ago; he was in Kuwait as of Sunday night/Monday morning, and will get into San Diego late tonight. I was worried that they would freeze him in place or rotate him to another command/assignment in-country, but according to the Battalion newsletter, they're rotating about 25 folks on PCS orders.
As for the rest of it ... Jesse wants to celebrate all the good we've done in Iraq. I don't argue that some good has been done since we've been there. I don't know that it offsets the damage we've done in the way we conducted the invasion.
BTW ... a PornoDoggy prediction. Within two years of Iraqi soverignty, one of the words that will be re-added to our working vocablulary - "nationalization."