It's been a long time....

since I've written on this thing....and a lot has happened. Mr. Mcdrunkendrivingandbeingwastedtwentyfourseven is finally out the door in a week...that was only a almost three month process. Red tape is ridiculously prevailant, especially when you are too busy to always keep checking up on shit. I've gotten a pair of lederhose, so watch out Bavaria...they'll be some pasty white legs hanging around soon.

Things I've learned during my second field exercise (MRX):

- Do not, under any circumstance, allow the acting platoon sergeant get his hands on the keys...holy shitze that massive keyring with every previously marked key now unmarked is ridiculous.
- It is not ok for my soldiers to drive 50kph down the tank trail, even if captain who yell at me about it are doing it are currently going 60kph down the very same tank trail.
- "Where the fuck is SGT _____?" ...if I had a quarter for every time I said that.
- The only time MILES vehicle gear works is when the OCs shoot it with their god guns.
- Don't put SPCs in charge of load out of ISU 90s...they'll load everyone they see.
- Don't put 1LTs in charge of load out of ISU 90s...they won't be able to find them.
- Don't let senior NCOs tell your soldiers to let a random dude on the FOB if they have searched him and he is clean...he will find out where the TOC, Aid station, and chow hall are located.
- You can never have enough tan tshirts.
- Apparantly the real land mines you find aren't in play...but the fake ones will kill you.
- If an IED goes off and no one is killed/vehicles disabled, you should stop in the enemy's kill zone so they can execute and complex attack on you...because if you keep rolling then the OC will just catastrophically kill and vehicle and give you two urg-surg casualties...and air is black...and those UH-60s spinning up on the PZ aren't actually there.
- You didn't give the pilots the PZ Control Freq...you must have been talking to the aliens on the DSN line last night.
- "S-3 says I cannot roll on this QRF mission due to mission requirements"--QRF commander
- Five hour TCPs will always turn in to nine hour TCPs
- OCs will sleep if you set up a nine hour TCP
- Slovenians will call you a fucking asswhole, piece of shit bastard fuckface....then shake your hand before saying goodbye...
- A male soldier will always get the spontaneous vaginal bleeding casualty card.
- Maintenance WILL shatter the replacement window for your LHS while installing it.
- Someone else will ALWAYS hope on your convoy.