Flew last night for the first time since I have been back in country, went well had a good flight. I flew night time to reset my NVS and now I am going back to days where I will remain till something needs to be fixed on another shift. I got to bed last night around midnight and low and behold the repair men are here at 06:00 to fix our air conditioner, lucky us. No big deal though because I am off today so that I can get back on shift tomorrow my show time will be 06:00 and I hate it. I never liked getting up to an alarm clock but I have no choice so I will just have to suck it up.
I have my work cut out for me over these next three months trying to get this gunnery off the ground. Not to mention planning the first gunnery for once we get home and the biggest challenge for that one will be the fact that 50% of the people that we have here will be gone to other units. You see once we get home many of the people that are here with me will be going to other units because they have been in Savannah over 6 years and it’s time for them to go. Not that they want to go it’s just that many of them have been here since flight school and they need to track and go to other units which will make them more diversified and help them to get promoted.
The weather here is so different since I left we have thunderstorms almost every afternoon kind of like we do in Savannah. This is the end of our hot months here and starting next month it will start to get a little cooler, thank you baby Jesus. It is not that I don’t like warm weather it’s just that I hate 110 degree and higher weather, especially when I have to wear a flight suit that covers me from head to toe. So like I said I look forward to the cooler weather that is coming our way.
As for our mission here we are still just as busy as we were when I left for mid tour, the natives are still pretty restless and they are getting into trouble on a daily basis. We try to help them with their troubles each and every day as best we can so they never have troubles again. As much as I can’t wait to leave this country and got home to my family it scares me to think that we may cut and run next summer and throw away all of the progress that we have worked so hard to accomplish. I hope that this does not happen and I hope that all of the lives lost and I mean all the lives are not for nothing.
Well as for me I am doing pretty well my moral is high and like I have said before the light is on. I look forward to all of the little hurtles that we have in our future like the replacing units equipment showing up and the advanced party showing up and whatever else happens that says Rob you will be home before you know it. I hope to see Barry somehow before I get out of here he is part of the unit that will be replacing us except he is going to a different FOB as of right now, but who knows. Time will tell and it’s been my experience in the Army that everything is subject to change at any time. I think I was lucky to be stationed here at Salerno from all I have heard from all of my friends from other FOBs we have it so much nicer here between hard buildings and our chow hall and all of the other things that make this place more like a Korea tour and not a combat tour. Don’t get me wrong there has been plenty of combat it’s just that our digs are pretty nice. Well I need to get this posted so I can begin my day and get some needed stuff done before I hit the ground running tomorrow so till next time, night all
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