FOB Smart at 1945 - Thursday
I was up late last night/early this morning due to a power outage and ended up not being able to fall back to sleep until 0200 - 0300. I watched a movie until I could no longer open my eyes. Exciting stuff!
Today was a very good day. A significant portion of our new PRT team arrived today on two Chinook helicopters. Man, those are amazing pieces of aviation strength. The rotor wash from these helicopters will literally move a 200-pound-plus man with ease. I helped the new team offload their gear from the second flight and gave the grand FOB tour to our two newest PRT engineering staff. We are packed into the FOB like sardines now, but such will ease up quickly with the various smaller teams rotating out to their detachments throughout Zabul Province. It was, for me, a great sight to see so many new faces and know that they too will become my comrades for their next nine months.
Tonight we are planning to watch Iron Man 2. Everyone seems tired, so maybe it will be delayed for another night. The DFAC was packed tonight with hungry souls and good food to be had. Mongolian Night at the DFAC draws a good crowd, but especially when we are double staffed. We even had ice cream!
143, K&K.
Good night and good day.
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