Monday at 0400 (4am for you civilian types 
) I went to work, where I checked out a HMMWV (HIgh Mobility Mediumweight Wheeled Vehicle) and there the fun began. I just got home at 1555 (3:55pm) on Friday and I'm drinking like a fish. Specifics later. Generalities now:
1) NC is fucking hot in June. Sleeping in a two-man tent with another dude is not cool when it's 95 degrees in there.
2) 5.56mm shell casings, when ejected from an M4 carbine after expelling the propellent within, are extremely hot, and when tossed on the back of one's neck, can ruin one's day.
3) Shooting five full magazines of blanks from an M4 while on the move at night, then switching to a laser-sight equipped M9, while being fired upon (with blanks) is an experience hardly describable in its orgasmic fulfilling potential. I highly recommend it. It was very cathartic.
4) If you have the wisdom to bring a carton of smokes to the field, everyone you know will have the cunning to forget theirs and the puppy-dog eyes to beg from you.
5) MREs rarely have peanut butter these days.
6) More later, I'm drunk and sleepy.
) I went to work, where I checked out a HMMWV (HIgh Mobility Mediumweight Wheeled Vehicle) and there the fun began. I just got home at 1555 (3:55pm) on Friday and I'm drinking like a fish. Specifics later. Generalities now:
1) NC is fucking hot in June. Sleeping in a two-man tent with another dude is not cool when it's 95 degrees in there.
2) 5.56mm shell casings, when ejected from an M4 carbine after expelling the propellent within, are extremely hot, and when tossed on the back of one's neck, can ruin one's day.
3) Shooting five full magazines of blanks from an M4 while on the move at night, then switching to a laser-sight equipped M9, while being fired upon (with blanks) is an experience hardly describable in its orgasmic fulfilling potential. I highly recommend it. It was very cathartic.
4) If you have the wisdom to bring a carton of smokes to the field, everyone you know will have the cunning to forget theirs and the puppy-dog eyes to beg from you.
5) MREs rarely have peanut butter these days.
6) More later, I'm drunk and sleepy.