So today was pretty relaxed. Around noon or so we had to escort the XO to one of the patrol bases, which meant drive to a base, sit in the truck and wait.
While we were there they called up EOD (our actual mission) cause they found an IED somewhere. So rather than spin up our other section and have them escort EOD out, they tell EOD to standby and wait for us to get back to the FOB.
Now don't get me wrong, I have no problem running missions all day, it makes time go by ALOT faster. But when you have the necessary elements in place to pull a mission, doesn't it make sense to use them, rather than wait for a totally different group to finish a mission and come back and roll right back out.
Somehow though, after about a half hour, the powers that be decided to use our other section (thankfully) so we only had to do the one mission.
After that we got a class on IEDs...dude, these Al Qaida dudes are sneaky little dirtbags. And creative.
Just so you all know I won't be updating for a couple days, I gotta go out and do the hooah thing and kick in doors and all. I'll be safe. I'm coming home. Mom don't worry about me. I'll update when we get back.
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I spent the last 10 months in Iraq, I was medevaced back to the States and that's where this picks up. In the often times comical world that is the United States Army.
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