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So far pretty much all we've done at my unit is battle drills- mostly convoy battle drills. We get ambushed, we jump out of the Humvee, take up a good fighting position, and return fire. Or if it's a sniper we return fire and keep driving. Or if it's an IED (improvised explosive device), we go to a security halt and the breech team (which consists of me and one other dude) get's to go investigate it. Stuff like that. In any case, it involves a lot of jumping out of the Humvee, which is hard on the knees. And while we're IN the Humvee we're on one knee, pointing our weapons outward to pull security. So after a few days of this, my knees are now sore as hell. I mean heck. (My parents might be reading.) And this is me officially complaining.

My Hummer crew is the best though. We've got the whole brotherhood thing going on, like in the war movies.. complete with nicknames. I'll introduce you:

Driver- SPC Hunte, aka "Ducksauce"

VC (vehicle commander)- SGT Millhouse (who needs a nickname for that?)

Air gunner- SPC Hill, aka "Nasty"

Left side security 1- SPC Byrd, aka "Birdman"

Left side security 2- SPC Marsh, aka uh.. well we change it like every day. He WANTS to be called "Scorpion", but we're like "eh.. no." I'm petitioning for "Swallow", since he won't shut up about the "Scorpion" thing. (and ya know, we've got the bird thing goin')

Right side security 1- PFC Reeder [that would be me], aka "Rooster"

Right side security 2- SPC Addison [My room mate], aka "Goose" (He didn't like "Crow", so he got stuck with "Goose")

And yes, I am the lowest ranking person on board. But I did get to be vehicle commander for like 5 minutes once, since SGT Millhouse died in an IED explosion and Goose got one in the forehead and I was the closest one to the radio. Ducksauce quickly relieved me though.. and got us lost on the subsiquent drive home.


On a completely different line of thought, can someone who loves me please comment on this so that I at least know the comment feature works? If you try and can't, let me know.