I may have used this before but Damn it's hot!!!

Today was the hottest day yet. I have told some people in emails tha we were lucky in that it had only been hitting 110 or so. We weren't so lucky today. Today hit 125 in the shade. Of course I spent most of it outside in the sun. It was probably 140 or so in the sun. Somebody is going to have to remind me what's so great about this place. It was just stupidly hot. Get this it rained for about 2 minutes. I was perplexed to see water hitting the ground and the HMMWV (High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle)I thought someone was throwing water over the T wall at me.

This week should be better than most as we are training up and refreshing our skills before we head off to Afghanistan. The local SPecial Forves team is coaching us along. We are starting at 0600 and getting done about 0900 before it gets to hot. LOL it was 110 by 0930 this morning.

In the states we are so controlled in our training, over here we are free to do pretty much whatever we want as long as it is safe. For example in the states we aren't allowed to even handle ammo most of the time unles we are getting it and going to our firing position on the range. Here we have loaded weapons a lot of the time, and always have ammo on us. At a minumum I have my 9MM and 2 15 round magazines. When I'm out on a mission well lets just say that I have to use the word thousands to describe the amount of ammuntion we are carrying, not to mention the grenades and flares and rocket launchers. Bottom line is if we engage the bad guys we win. They don't want to go toe to toe with any american force. You shoot 1 round we shoot enough to make you stop. If you happen to be shooting from a building and are hiding well that what the rocket launchers are for lol.

So are training is fun, well for me it is. I'm pretty sure that some of the other rather be behind thier desks. Me, well I generally look for an excuse to get out from behind it. Some days I'm a softy and the heat gets the best of me but most of the time I rather be out an about.

Not much else to report. The coming days will bring a lot of changes as the polish begin leaving and this place turns over to an all american camp. I will talk more about that later.

Later for now,

Brent