I got out of work this week to play in a 3-day mobility exercise, and let me say... taking a hot shower was like a little slice of heaven. Tuesday morning we got out to the "camp", which hadn't been used in 4 years. It consisted of 3 large quansits and a fence. We swept out the buildings, dusted off some chairs and desks we found and started filling sand-bags for walls. Since I'm part of a career field that doesn't really perform in a deployed environment, they stuck me on night-shift as a door guard. Standing around doing nothing sucks when you do it for 12 hours straight in 50 degree weather with the lights off. The real kicker was that most of the planned attacks on our camp were during the day, when I was supposed to be resting. On top of all of this we were in MOPP level 2 the entire time... goes great with the New Mexico summer sun. Anyways I'm back and have reaffirmed my appreciation for our deployed soldiers.
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2004-05-13, 07:51 PM
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