Speaking of camps.........
Dang, only one email today. So I guess I'll come here and make small talk. Lots more time to do this now that I'm working at night.
Since coming to the night shift I've noticed 3 things. The're many more mortor attacks at night then during the day. I must have slept through a majority of them working days, It's a lot darker and cooler and the food selection is much smaller in the chow hall.
When I say "Mortor Attacks" it usually involves only one or two hits, many of them duds, and usually far away from me. The crew usually hears a "thump" off in the distance (still on post though, big post) and the sirens start blaring. Couple hit close, as I've reported here before, and it's LOUD and scary. Sometimes I ponder the thought that when I hear the 'thump' in the distance, somewhere someone on this post is getting the loud and scary.
Copters flying everywhere. This place is covered in copters. This place is the main logistics base for all o' Iraq, and there is major protection going on here. These copters are always flying low so there's always a whole lotta 'whump-whump-whump-whump' going on. It's really neat, seeing formations of attack helicopters cruising accross this place heading out to circle the compound. But it does make sleep a little rough at times. our hooches shake alot from the helicopters, and it's loud.
