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Originally Posted by Kassel
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Please exclude my ignorance, how do you have more time while in a war zone fighting a war? are there support jobs that basically run 9-5? and the rest of your time is spent dislodging sand out of various crevice's or playing eq? Do all military personal get net in their rooms/bunks do you have to share access? Do you bring your own computer or can you actually play EQ on military hardware. Keep in mind all i know about war is based on news and cnn. I guess i though everyone would be cleaning guns and getting ready for the next mission/hunt. Just curious
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The warzone I'm in isn't really a "war zone" anymore. What my unit does here is provide communications for A LOT of operations. We get mortared every day just about, but because the "combat troops" are out of Iraq, we really don't get to go outside and chase them...We have security around our base which does a faily decent job of defending the base, but of course, they fuck up too and we get hit with mortars.
My team runs 12 hour shifts, and after the inital "setup" of our equipment, we go into monitoring mode and just wait till something breaks, and generally it doesn't. I haven't had to fix anything in the last 4 months... :\
We do stupid shit here ALL the time, as the saying goes, there is a lot of "hurry up and wait", After a 12 hour shift, there is something back at the room that needs to be fixed for a higher up or someone at an outpost, so I have to fix their issue(s) and help them with whatever it is that needs to be done, sometimes that invovles me loading up on a chopter and taking a quick 2-3hr flight to some other post in Iraq. If that doesn't happen, I normally go to the gym for 1-2hrs and then head back to the room to talk to wife/friends/play EQ.
There are 2 people to a room, and you have to pay for your own internet, and at times it sucks ass, but hey, at least it's internet. $120.00 a month for 256k service, expensive, I know, but I like to keep up with how my baby is doing, along with my 8 year old and wife. Every soldier pretty much has internet, and if they don't I let them borrow mine for a few mins to skype back home.
Where I work and where I sleep is two different places, it's about a 20 min walk to and from, while carrying 30-45lbs of extra gear. It's not to bad though, because it's an easy workout heh...I COULD bring my personally laptop to work, but I don't really want my computer being used on a gov. internet connection, just in case
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. I'm military equipment now posting, I can view MOST websites, but cannot view stuff like facebook, myspace, youtube, and ESPN, which sucks...but what our higher ups don't know is we have haji TV at work, it's about 10 channels and it normally fields 2-3 football games per saturday and sunday (along with the World Series games).
Out of the 5 months I've been here, I've fired my weapon three times, been mortared a bunch but mainly, I do a weekly PMCS (which pretty much means I make sure it's clean/functioning) on my weapon.
It's okay that what you know is mostly through the news heh, I learn shit over here everyday! Thanks for asking about it though, instead of just labeling me as some baby killer lol
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All in all Iraq is an experience, I wish I wasn't here for a year, but I'm not going to get emo about it, there are worst places to be. I get to work and train Iraqi soldiers, which honestly, that is the most nerve wrecking part, because honestly, I don't trust them, because I know they don't trust me....It's a fubar situation and just because combat troops are out of Iraq doesn't mean the WAR HAS STOPPED.