nothing is something?

It’s been a few days since my last post and to say that I have been busy has been an understatement. Who would have ever thought that we would be training in Iraq to get ready for Afghanistan. The Special Forces that are located here have been kind enough to take some time and train us up on some skills that have gotten quite rusty since we have been here. We have been working on shooting and some close quarters combat stuff, along with reacting to enemy contact and IED recovery drills. It’s something you hope you will never use but thinking it will never happen is what gets people in trouble. I rather be prepared and never have to use what I know than ill prepared and will probably be one of the most dangerous times in my life.
The Taliban are on the run and by the time I get there snow will be about ready to fall and the bad guys go home for the winter. Where I will be is going to be about 7k feet which is about 2k feet higher than Denver.

Along with training I somehow weaseled my way on to an MI-24 HIND helicopter flight. This helicopter is pretty cool and when armed is one of the most feared helicopters in the world next to our Apache of course. Unlike our Apache this gunship is made to carry 6 guys in addition to the pilots. So I was lucky enough to snag a ride.

I would love to post more pictures but each picture has been taking almost 20 min to post. My internet connection upload is very slow.

The weather here is about the same. We have seen a little reprieve in the heat as it only hit 118 today. The highest I have seen it was 125. My thermometer is in the shade so in the sun the temps are easily in the 140s. It’s almost painful.