Saturday, April 24, 2010

FIELD DUTY

There's nothing less exciting for me than being out in the field. Even worse, is being the guy in charge of a Detachment of seventy-six Marines and one Navy Corpsman. It's not having to ensure that all those within my charge are provided life support (billeting, chow, port-a-jons, showers, water, etc.) that's the easy part. It's the misery brought on by the heat, flys, the civilian contractors inability to service the port-a-jons in a reasonable time and having to walk a mile just to brush your teeth.

Here's my life in a not so Mint Chocolate Ranch...

Here comes the rain
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Our tents just offloaded from the 7-Ton. Gotta put 'em up before that rain reaches us
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It takes a lot of peoplepower to put up our billeting (GP) tents
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Don't let this rainbow fool you - the heavy rain has yet to come
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Is that what's at the other end?
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Taking advantage of down time in our luxurious accomodations
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More to follow... (as long as my iPhone doesn't keel over)

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