Wow, do I have one for you.

You ever have that personal debate that just turns stupid ugly? Well just a few hours ago I did. Uglier then any debate I had in a GREAT while.

I was doing some work on the FOB for an exercise and I got done early. I saw another one of my company vans so I asked the driver SGT Joe if I could get a ride back with them. He said sure. I peek in...

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Well, it's been a while since I posted. Alot has gone on, I was put in charge of the IT shop behind the Officer in charge (OIC). So I am the Non-commissioned Officer in charge of the S6 shop (NCOIC). I was made back-up gunner for Convoys using the M2 (.50 cal). We've done 100s or hours worth of training. I got rolled in a HUMM-V

Life was good until a few days ago. I called home and...

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For the past two weeks, I have been retraining on my MOS (Military Job). Which is supposed to be computers. All we did is re-learn how to operate various radio and GPS units for the military.

Today I got orders. I am to report to Fort Lewis for onward deployment to Afghanistan. Mentally I am ready, but the training I recieved for the last 4 weeks has been poor at best.

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Week 2 Wednesday.

We were allowed to play with some big toys. We got heavy arms training.Nothing big, we didn't even get to shoot it. Just took it apart a little. Load/Unloaded clear ect. but it was still cool to play with.

First in line were the M240 and the M249. These are sister weapons with the expection of the round each of them shoots. I was mounted on the M249...

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I am currently in Camp McCrady, near Fort Jackson for re-training.

The facilities here at first glance look real dingy. Then on Day 5 (Friday) we walked into a trailer that had two screens side by side. Each screen was about 14 feet wide by 7 feet tall. On the floor were 8 M16A2 and 2 M4s. I was told to grab the M4. So I picked up. There were two wires coming out of it and a sensor...

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