I thought this was a pretty cool picture, but you can really see in my eyes how tired I am. You can see the sun just beside my head. Oh, btw, sorry the pictures are so grainy, I can't find my camera so I'm taking pictures with my camcorder now.
You can see the humidity that the sun is trying to scorch through. It was an epic war between the heat and the humidity... I'm still not sure which won.
the shirt I'm wearing is called an ACS (advanced combat shirt) it's supposed to be more comfortable to wear under body armor (IOTV) but it's some sort of spandexy thing with pretty thick sleeves, so it was a BIG bistake to wear on that particular mission. I was a bit on the smelly side.
I actually did get a few minutes of sleep.
Our accomodations...I wanted to put a video up to see how it would work. This is an example of what can go wrong on a mission... I wish I could say that stuff doesn't go wrong on most of them, but this one was particularly bad. We're laying on the back of a flatbed and as you can probably see we hadn't slept much in a while. Also it was unbelievably hot and muggy. So even at 5 am like it was we were dripping sweat. Also we didn't get to sleep till about 10 am, so we were out there in the sun that whole time... fun! Sorry for the angle.
Oh man you guys look really hot (thank you Captain Obvious). My poor darling boy still looks really good no matter what. Did any other bad things happen on the drive home? Also Alex kept on speaking in military jargon so that was pretty hard to understand. Nice to see you guys getting pretty cozy with each other though ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting the video!! So great to actually see and hear you talking in almost real time....you guys seem to have weary, but cheerful countenances in spite of having gone through those things.
ReplyDeleteI've always liked to go through the hard part of something first and then have the easy part follow....and hopefully that's how it's going to go for the rest of the mission (...smoother).
i've been waiting for you to post something new so that i could comment on it. but since the point is the comment, not post, i suppose an old post will work to comment on as well as a new one. lol.
ReplyDeleteenjoyed chatting with you. hope we can talk again before too long.