FARMINGTON – Sharri Kapiloff hears from her husband, Maj. Glenn Kapiloff, who is stationed in Iraq, every day.

“He’s doing OK,” she said. “It was a little scary this week.”

Kapiloff and his Army Reserve unit of military officer instructors arrived in Iraq just before Thanksgiving to teach Iraqi military officer command skills.

Kapiloff, the father of four daughters, is director of Foster Regional Applied Technology Center in Farmington.

“I talked to him this morning,” Sharri Kapiloff said Thursday.

One way or another her husband communicates with her each day to let her know he’s all right, she said.

“It’s a blessing,” she said.

Kapiloff had e-mailed co-workers in SAD 9 on Dec. 14 stating he was at his new home in Iraq with the 1st Cavalry Division. They are housed in two-man rooms in trailers.

“They are not great,” he wrote, “but they are much better then anything we have seen yet.”

His unit is next to an airport at a camp called Victor North, also knows as Camp Liberty.

“It has a lot more vegetation then we have seen before,” he said. “It also has a rather large man-made lake that adds to the view a lot, even has loons in it.”

The sunrises and sunsets are beautiful there, he said.

“I guess it’s because you can see so far the sky seems real large – anyway you take what you can get,” he said.

Kapiloff said he is looking for 2005 to be a great year, especially around next fall.

Kapiloff, whose unit hadn’t been deployed in more than 20 years, hopes to come home then.