the field...

so we just sspent the last couple of days out in the field. it was actually really good. we ran a bunch of missions that were related to what we will be doing in iraq. we had to go into villages and use interpreters to speak to the chief of police, teach classes to the iraqi police, run joint missions with te iraqis, escort VIPs, and securing routes. a whole bunch of different things but it was really good because doing so many different things really instilled confidence in each other. it is very similiar to softball, the more reps you get the better you are. getting to do so many things really made me feel a lot more confident in my teak and squad. through the last week we proved 2nd squad is the best squad in the platoon, even our platoon leader thought so.

on our last day we had to do a huge mission with the whole company and out of our platoon one ssquad was an assualt element, one squad was security for the assault, and one squad was basically on stanby in case something went wrong. our platoon leader chose our squad to do the assault and we did really well. it was nice to be in that kind of situation becuase even though its not real there is still a bunch of pressure and it shows you how you will react under the pressure. all the training we have done made me very confident in what we were doing and it was second nature to do everything we needed to do.

cant wait to come home in a couple of days!!! its snowing a whole bunch here, we are doing a couple more classes, mainly just make up stuff and issuing our final gear. we are getting our night vision goggles and a couple of other very expensive pieces of equipment tonight ( the nvgs are almost $5,000 by themselves..). then just packing up, cleaning up and getting prepared for the pass and to actually leave here.

sorry this post is extremely random and very unorganized, ive had to leave it to go do things a couple of times and didnt want to take the time to go back, read it, and fix it. i love you all though!