Today

Wrote this this morning:

Well things change pretty fast around here. About three hours after I wrote the last post we got alerted for a mission and have been going full speed for the last 2 days. As soon as we returned from the one 24 hour mission we got tasked with battalion QRF. Which is where you have to be ready to go within 15 minutes and relieve anyone with issues such as recovering a mired vehicle or doing casevac for a a platoon. If nothing happens it's not too bad except for the fact that you can't go anywhere or do anything.


In the Army theres this rule about publicly making disparaging remarks about the army, your unit, the country or its leaders. I try to adhere to that rule for no other reason than I enjoy my free time, pay and other benefits associated with not being in trouble. . I just thought I'd say that.



In something completely unrelated to my preceeding statement, the last few days attached to the infantry has been “Interesting”. There hasn't been any casulties as far as I know, but there have been 3 accidental discharges, 1 “test fire” at a stray dog and 1 rolled over vehicle. ... and I've been on one mission. so...yea...

We're finally looking at some down time for the first time in a week so hopefully I'll be able to get to the Internet and post all these and keep em updated on a semi regular basis. We're supposed to be homesteading out of where we are at for a few months at least. I still don't like the prospect of actually getting any mail because our address has changed for the 5th or 6th time since the week prior to deployment. We'll see what happens.