Pass!

How wonderful pass is. Im sitting in my hotel room with nothing planned for today and I really love it. Its incredible how much you appreciate the little things in life after they are taken away from you for a little while. I woke up today at about 0930 and was able to just lay in bed until about 10. Wow was it nice. I am planning on keeping my days open and without clutter. All I need is a good whiskey sour and my computer and Ill be set. 

Since my last post we actually got to do quite a bit of training. Everything from short range marksmanship with my M4 to a full on 4 day crew gunnery qualification. For our gunnery qual. we were sent out to Donna Anna base camp to stay a few days while we ran day and night tables. I was the driver, with Sgt. Roz as the gunner, and the Commander in charge of the truck. What happens is were all in the truck on a lane and we drive. As we drive targets will pop up, either vehicle targets or personell targets. We stop, the gunner gives them some high velocity lead poisoning, and we drive on. 

Besides that fun stuff weve just been packing our bags and making sure we are ready to roll when our plane is ready. Everyone is keeping their fingers crossed to be overseas before the end of the month. 

Before I head out i would like to leave you with this video by LTC. White. It was the same speech he gave at my graduation from Infantry school and it has always stuck with me. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbOcJ6kqJAA

Counting the Days

So life is pretty good here on COL McGreggor. I get 3 decent meals a day, a hot shower every night, and a ncie enough gym to workout in anytime I want. The internet in the barracks is finally working well enough to carry on conversations with my friends online and check my Email. I honestly thought I would miss home more than I do. The only things I find myself actually missing are my little brothers Jake and Noah, and sometimes my bed. 

I have some pretty good friends down here that keep me entertained and make me feel at home. We try to escape the reality of our location by getting some NA Beer every now and again and sitting around in our camping chairs. 

Its been hard to keep up to date with the blog. Im usually too tired to muster words to put into here this last week. Odd training hours and my nack for finding activities to occupy my time have put my sleep a bit off schedule so Ive been a bit too tired at the end of the day to write. 

And actually as I write this i realize i have to be up in 6 hours so Im going to get to bed. 

More to follow soon.