As our training finally winds down here we got to do convoy training today. It was a nice rainy and muddy day so we got extra dirty. I got to be gunner of one of the trucks, which meant that I got to shoot belt-fed blanks from a M240 machine gun mounted to the top of the Humvee during a scenario. Pretty cool. The weather has been strange here. Today was rainy, a couple of days ago was cold (high only in the 50's) and before that it was sauna-esque hell.
Training days start early with a hot breakfast. This includes some sort of pork product, a banana (always banana), eggs (which I skip), and grits (it is the South after all). I did not grow up eating grits so I was a little perplexed by them at first and while I may have grown more accustomed to eating them, I am still not sure what one should really do with them to make them taste good. The dining facility on this base is actually quite good by military standards, but on these mornings we start before the dining facility opens, so this is what we get.
After a day of training we must clean our weapons. I am now pretty darn good at disassembling cleaning and reassembling my rifle and pistol. I love the smell of CLP in the morning. (The empty seat in the center is where I sit).
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