ND National Guard’s Yellow Ribbon Weekend

The kids received a medal stating "We Served Too"

We're all celebrating Jerod's return!

Two week report

As of tomorrow, Friday the 28th of May, I’ve been home two weeks and there’s been lots of activity.

We put in a bunch of grapes, fruit trees, and haskap bushes.  Around here, plants like that require a deer fence if you want to eat any of the produce yourself.

Yesterday, Taggart got a haircut like his [...]

Goodbye to Camp Bondsteel

I’ll be leaving soon, and I should really take a few more pictures around the place to remember it by. In anticipation of doing some of that tomorrow, I’ll start with a couple tonight.

Camp Bondsteel Parade Grounds

Home Sweet Bondsteel

We're planning for Jerod to be home mid-May

NEWS RELEASE: Some North Dakota Soldiers in Kosovo to Return in May
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BISMARCK, N.D. — An announcement yesterday from Headquarters of the U.S. Army in Europe indicated that about 550 U.S. Soldiers serving with Kosovo Force (KFOR) 12, Multi-National Battle Group-East, will be returning home before summer. About 160 Soldiers of the 231st [...]

The DanCon March

More at my google photo album:

2009-11-22 DanCon March

Kosovo Polje

This monument marks the location (or near to it, anyway) of the Battle of Kosovo in 1389. One thing about Kosovo, it rains almost every day here, at least this time of year. It’s difficult to get decent pictures of anything when it’s so cloudy and dark.

Because this site is very important to [...]

Jerod arrived safely in Kosovo

His new address is

CPT Jerod Tufte
KFOR-12 TF Falcon – HHC
APO AE 09340

Info from a colleague of Jerod’s blog about sending care packages using USPS flat rate boxes: “If any of you are planning to send a care package to a U.S. military service member serving in Kosovo, there are flat-rate boxes from the U.S. Postal [...]