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"Yesterday is a good example of what I do everyday."
"It was rainy and dark, and the fog was really heavy and thick. It was dark and I couldn't see with lights or my thermal vision (comment - thermal vision has to have temperature variation for the goggles to work). We got up that morning at 5 am - well before light. That gave me only about 4 hours of sleep the night before."
"We had to escort a bunch of Benzene trucks in a convoy going north. There were a lot of them and it took a few hours to get them where we wanted to take them. That was an easy job. We just drive for this and I wasn't a driver on that trip, I was a dismount (comment - dismounts are the guys who get off the vehicle if there's trouble).
"After we dropped the trucks off we headed back to Rabeaa, but we had to stop and check in at four towns on the way back. It was boring at first since I was just staying on the truck. The last village we stopped in I finally got out. We walked through the town and went to the "boss's" house. which is usually the nicest house in the entire village. We go in, listen to his complaints and tell him what we will do about it. Then we are served tea (chi) and then talk to them for a little while. Its OK - boring but OK. Usually I stay with the truck and we talk to the kids. That's a lot more fun and it makes the time go fast."
"We've been shot at a few times, and no I personally haven't shot anyone, usually as driver I just watch and actually one time I made some Kool-Aid while bullets pinged and zinged overhead. Knew the guys would be thirsty when they finished their work."
"Yesterday is a good example of what I do everyday."
"It was rainy and dark, and the fog was really heavy and thick. It was dark and I couldn't see with lights or my thermal vision (comment - thermal vision has to have temperature variation for the goggles to work). We got up that morning at 5 am - well before light. That gave me only about 4 hours of sleep the night before."
SnowandFog 
"We had to escort a bunch of Benzene trucks in a convoy going north. There were a lot of them and it took a few hours to get them where we wanted to take them. That was an easy job. We just drive for this and I wasn't a driver on that trip, I was a dismount (comment - dismounts are the guys who get off the vehicle if there's trouble).
"After we dropped the trucks off we headed back to Rabeaa, but we had to stop and check in at four towns on the way back. It was boring at first since I was just staying on the truck. The last village we stopped in I finally got out. We walked through the town and went to the "boss's" house. which is usually the nicest house in the entire village. We go in, listen to his complaints and tell him what we will do about it. Then we are served tea (chi) and then talk to them for a little while. Its OK - boring but OK. Usually I stay with the truck and we talk to the kids. That's a lot more fun and it makes the time go fast."
"We've been shot at a few times, and no I personally haven't shot anyone, usually as driver I just watch and actually one time I made some Kool-Aid while bullets pinged and zinged overhead. Knew the guys would be thirsty when they finished their work."
posted by deesci | 10:35 PM
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