Saturday, April 28, 2007

Another Busy Week

Where to begin... This week was full of machine gun firing. I'm a better shot at night than during the day. Thermal sights and the fact that only the closer targets pop up at night might have a little to do with it. Later on in the week, we did some missions. We practiced planning Traffic Control Points and Doing a Cordon and Search. After the planning, We took turns executing the missions.

My mission was yesterday. It was what we call a "Cordon and Knock". You set up outer and inner rings of security so no one gets out and no one comes in and then you go meet the mayor or knock on a door and say "Hi, I hear that you might be Taliban or helping the Taliban. Can I come in and search you house?" That part went well. On the way back from the C&K, we got ambushed in the worst place you could get hit, with the most stuff you could get hit with. It was the end of the training day, and the OC's had extra ordnance to expend. So... that part didn't go so well. I won't bore you all with the play by play, but there were many blank .50 cal rounds fired by Tractor, lots of explosions, Doc and a few of the other guys didn't make it... it was total chaos.

We got the word on where our team is going and how we are going to be used. For now, I'll just say that it's not going to be a trip to Happy Fun Camp. When I get back from this and someone gives me the "Why do you need to go to Sapper Leader Course or Ranger School?" crap, I'll lose my cool... at best.

Comments on "Another Busy Week"

 

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (11:31 AM) : 

so...why exactly do you need to go to Sapper Leader Course or Ranger School after you get back from this mission?

:)

 

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