My day started off like a normal off day, I sleep late get up go get a shower and then off to chow. After chow I drop by the office to see if there are any changes to the flight schedule before I go back to my room to post to my blog or watch a movie. I walk in and look at the board to see my name in big red letters Rob we need you to fly tonight and put 6 hours on the aircraft so we can do scheduled maintenance on it. I will take off in two hours, not that it is a problem but it’s hard to switch gears sometimes. I woke up thinking I would have a nice day off to do a few records and catch up on some me time, duty calls. So I go and round up my two RL progression flight pilots and off we go to the airfield to do our training. I fly Jen first for three point two hours and except for our first couple of patterns it was a good flight. On our first landing tower calls us to let us know that we have a lot of tracer fire behind us on short final. I called them back and said I would take a better look on our next go around and off we went. I looked at all of the mud huts on short final and I did not see anyone outside so I continued my training with no more distractions I am sure it was just someone taking some random pot shots. It was already dark and we fly completely blacked out so they were just shooting at noise. So anyway Paul was second up and he and I flew out to our gunnery range and did some shooting, we fired about 100 rounds of 30mm and 10 rockets. After this flight he progressed to his next RL level and all said and done I ended up with 5.8 hours for the night. I am on the schedule for 6 days next week and only two of them are training flights so it will be a little more interesting to say the least.
So here I sit once again in my room listening to my iPod and typing to my blog. I think I am really getting into getting on here and talking about whatever comes up in my day. I just wish that I could truly talk about whatever I wanted and didn’t have to think about what I was talking about. Some things are off the table for obvious reasons and as for pictures I have so many that I just can’t post for safety reasons. I spent about twenty minutes the other day on Photoshop labeling a aerial picture that I took of our fob to show everyone the lay out and then it hit me that if this were to fall into the wrong hands it shows the entire layout of where everything is and I can’t post this. So everyone will just have to take my word that things are exactly where I say they are.
After my flight last night I was not feeling too well so I came back to my room and took some Tylenol and lay down and that was it I was out till about 0530. I never wake up this early it was a sign, so I turned on the computer and hooked up my magic jack and called home. I got to talk to Elli and that was nice I have not talked to her for about a week and I really needed a fix from my little one. I talked to all of my girls but I did not talk to Robby I am sure he was busy playing a game or his guitar. I can’t wait till I get home and I can hear him play live from my living room. Marie says he spends a lot of time on it and I am so glad to hear that, we bought it right before I left for OEF. And I was glad to hear that it was a hit Christmas morning for him.
Chow tonight was pretty good they had one of my favorite, chicken corden blue and it was great. When Marie and I were in Germany we use to go to this little Italian restaurant in Bad Windsheim our home town and Franco would make it for me it was awesome. I Loved Germany, the time I spent there with Marie and our kids is time I will never forget. It was our first active duty assignment and it was amazing. I remember all our trips like they were yesterday, Holland, Poland, England, Italy, Czech republic, France, Switzerland and the list goes on. We took so many trips over there many by ourselves and many with family and friends. When I get home from this place I want to take many more I want to see everything this world has to offer. I want to see everything, and I want to take my family with me to see everything. I would really like to take the entire family on a trip to China, although I was only there for a week it was one of my most memorable vacations, the people were so genuine and friendly you would have never thought that you were in a communist country. I hiked the great wall and I walked in Summer Palace it was truly amazing. And the only thing that could have made that trip is if Marie and the kids could have been there. I wish more than anything else in the whole world that I could have shared all my trips and adventures with them. So that many years from now when we reminisce I will never have to say that I was not there for that or you were not with me for that. All right I got pretty far off topic tonight but this is just what popped into my mind tonight so, it is what it is, night all
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