Letter from the desert.(constuction engineer of United States. Department of Navy) From: CHIPS | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Carey, Rob | COPYRIGHT 2007 U.S. Navy. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

I received an e-mail in late October from the CHIPS editor, Sharon Anderson, who asked me if I would write about my experiences here and what I am doing.

So what is the recently selected Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer doing as an engineer assigned to a construction regiment (Seabees) in Iraq? Well, many things! Then I realized, heck, there's really not much that I can say about what I do because nearly everything (and for good reasons) I read or hear is...