hey guys, sorry it's been so long. i've gotten caught up in all the business and craziness that has been going on over here. looking at the calendar it's hard to believe that we're way more than half way done with our tour, and that pretty soon we'll be RIP'ing in our replacements. So far it's hard to say that we've had much of an impact in our area of operations. It consists mainly of a large gravel operation up north with few traversable roads and a few small towns on the way to baghdad. thankfully most of the attacks have been targeting the iraqi army and the iraqi police, but it's still an attack on the people who are working hard to bring this country to unity. there have been a couple incidents with our strykers, most of them were just getting stuck in a canal after a road had collapsed or something like that... except the one that hit my patrol set back in april. hit my squads truck, messed it up pretty bad. it had to go back to the state because it had a cracked hull. no one was killed thank God, but there were some pretty serious injuries that sent some guys back home for the rest of the tour. i'll put up some pictures once i find them again. but we got a truck to replace that one and are back out working full force again.
a few months ago i took over as the platoon RTO ( radio telephone operator) basically this means that i'm in charge of all of the internal and external communications of my section. this involves changing the fills of every single radio when our comsec changes, maintaining a "fleet" of radios, batteries, antennas, microphones and headsets. This also means trouble shooting everything when something isn't working right. sounds like alot of fun right?
well i'll try to keep this updated more often, bug me if I don't
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