Sorry I haven't posted anything these past two weeks, we have been busy training with lots of long days and short nights, but it has all come to end and we have Block Leave starting tomorrow. Over the past two weeks we to qualify with our M16 rifles to qualify you have to shoot at 23 of the 40 targets or 57% they pop up and down at distances between 50-300 meters shoot 26/40 which isnt the best but its good enough.
We also had training at the Gas Chamber which is when we go into this where this room with our mask on and there is CS gas spraying in the air, the gas is similar to tear gas. Something was wrong with my mask and some of the gas sneaked in there, it burned my eyes and my throat I couldn't see for 10 mins. I'm really hoping we don't encounter anything thing like that when we go over. We also had a Humvee rollover training, we were put in a Humvee and it rolled over three times once it stopped rolling we had to climb out of while it was upside down. That is another thing I hope we don't have to use in Afghanistan.
These last few months have been very hard, we have done all the training and preparation that most units deploying do in 6 months in 3. Staying at work until 9:00pm and coming at 5:00am. I'm just glad its over and I'm leaving to head home for two weeks. I plan to just take my mind off the Army for a while and just relax and enjoy myself, because once we come back we have less than 30 days before we fly out. Although all the training and longs will done the anxiety will increase as each day gets closer and things will be more serious.
Hoping to see all of you while I'm home, and look forward to sharing the next part of this journey as I go forward.
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