Wandering Around the IZ

So 2 days ago, there I was...

Armed up and ready to go. Got on a Blackhawk and headed to Baghdad. This was one of the coolest rides I have ever been on. (second only to an F-15 ride) My first flight on a helo and it is in a warzone. Cool as shit!!

Flying over the IZ and being able to see everything... man what a shit hole.

So I arrive and we get greeted by an army dude that we had to wait for at the pax terminal for about an hour. Fucking slow ass bitches. He then takes us to billeting and there are no rooms available. But there is a tent available. Yup, I got a cot with 50 other dudes in the tent. So I get into the tent and put my shit on the floor (at least there was a floor) Mind you I have no sheets, blankets, or a pillow. I ended up buying a pillow at the BX and used a towel and my DCU top as a blanket for the night. Needless to say, I slept for shit!!

The next day was hell... I wake up in the morning and it had been raining most of the night prior. There was mud everywhere. I go to take a shower and have no where to sit down to take my boots off or anything. I basically just tried to balance on my flip-flops while I was stripping. And trying not to get mud all over me from the floor.

We ran into some issues getting into the building we were giving a brief in, meaning that they would not let us in. Now this would not have been a big deal, but we were just wandering through there yesterday with no problems. Stupid army fucks. Got all that sorted out and gave the brief to some Army, Air Force and Marine dudes. None of them had a fucking clue of what we did. Go fuckin figure.

After that, it was a race to get to the terminal to catch our flight outta there (which we were ready to go.) Well guess fuckin what... They had taken us off the manifest for the flight so we had no flight. Luckily some seats opened up and we were able to get on a flight. Somehow, it was actually earlier than the one we were "booked" for that got dropped.

Another cool ass flight back to our "home." I had never been so happy to get back to the shit-hole I live in here.

Needless to say, don't let the army arrange shit for Air Force people.

Song of the day:
"Final Countdown" by Europe