Sunday, February 13, 2011

Backlog 2

Ok so i had some issues last night with the internet here so here is the rest of the backlog and i will put up yesterday and today's a little later.

Water
Today was a great day for two ways, 1) I didn’t get wet and 2) we went into an area and it was the closest thing that we have done to an actual mission. I will explain it later. So let me start at the beginning.
Being at the FOB you feel like it is kind of a big camping trip. Until some of the few time that “war” makes an appearance. We have big guns on the FOB and when they fire you know it. It is one of things that make you remember what you are doing here. We just call it outgoing and we go on our business and you don’t really think about it. Well today I actually saw where they were hitting and it is one of those feelings where you are really glad to be on this side of the gun. I don’t know what they were shooting at but I know that whatever it was, wasn’t a good guy. It was a day that you could just feel the tension in the air. I don’t know how that you can explain the feeling but it was almost as if you could feel everyone cringing at the same time when something was loud. But we still had a mission to complete and we were going to go and do it. We were heading down to the village that was across the wadi form where we were two days ago.
So we headed down to the area and we just been to two days ago and walked down to the wadi. This is where point 1 comes in. We went across the wadi and we did it by stepping on rocks and walking across a foot bridge made of branches and then some more rocks and I didn’t fall in, good on me. We had seen the village the other day and there were a good number of people out but when we got there it was a ghost town. But we walked though the village and we were able to find a few people to talk about. It has been the thing that feels most like an actual mission. We walked a few clicks into a village that we hadn’t been to before and we came out without anything major happening. It was a good day.

Rain
Today was one of those days that you don’t really want to talk about. We had our mission and nothing big came from it and we headed back up to MF. What really made it a bad day was that it started to rain again. When we got back to MF it was just a mud pit again. I am just kinda in a bad mood so I am going to leave it at that.

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