A Year In The Sandbox

We went out in the middle of nowhere a few weeks ago to get rid of some old ammo. Here’re a few videos I took that day. This is a Mk19 40mm machine gun being fired by one of our SECFOR guys.

I finally got all the videos uploaded, so here’s the first post. Some of the videos are more interesting than others, but they’re all kind of cool to watch.

I severely underestimated the time it would take to upload my videos. The internet connection here moves at the speed of smell, and on top of that I keep getting errors from YouTube just as the videos are about to finish. I have a few uploaded but I was hoping to group them in to [...]

Everything’s going good here, we’re in the home stretch now. My shop got reorganized and I don’t have an office anymore since all I really do is the convoys. Unfortunately that means I don’t have internet access on my laptop anymore so it’s a little tougher to update now. I’m going to try tomorrow to [...]

A couple weeks ago I lucked out and got two days in a row with no mission scheduled, a Thursday and Friday. Most weeks I only get Fridays off, and a lot of weeks there are no days off, so I planned to take full advantage. We spent the day Thursday building walls in our [...]