Here is the front entrance of the CPIC, with bushes and trees surrounding us.

And here is SPC Brittany Gardner exiting the building. You can probably barely see the sign on the door behind here "Please Close the Door Behind You." With temperatures at 112 degrees, I am sure you can understand why.

Here's the back patio to the building. It's shady with trees and benches...but still 112 degrees. We plan to put a small garden here. There are already some flowers, although they are wilted a bit with the heat.

Near our building is a covered parking area....but most vehicles sit out in the sun. Can you "mobile sauna"?

Nearby the CPIC we also have CHUs available for media on their way to embedded opportunities around Iraq. There are pretty basic, but at least they have air conditioning.

Here's the entrance to one of the CHUs. The media who visit will get cots and a night stand -- about the same as the soldiers of the 314th PAOC -- although they have a nicer front porch than I do.

This is the meeting area outside our press conference room. Leather sofas, Persian rug and beautiful tile floor.

Here are SGT Tull and CPT Thames in the central reception area.

Off the central reception area are a several work areas. One of them is a hexagonally shaped room -- nicknamed the "rock-tagon". Here is the IMET work area (can you see SFC Poulten at his desk?).

SGT Lee and SFC Daley are in the Embed Section of the Rock-tagon.

Another door leading off the central reception area leads to the office where I work. The first person you see when you open the door is MAJ Lincoln, the XO for the 314th.

Here's my desk..and my filing cabinet.

Just down the hallway from Soheir are two meeting rooms for the media where they can get a snack or work on a computer while they wait for press conferences.

Also located in the CPIC building is AFN Radio -- with soldiers from the 222nd Broadcast Operations Detachment from California.