Living the American Dream!
So it has been 1 week since I quit smoking and the bitchiness, mood swings and headaches have subsided so I felt inspired enough to want to write again. Strange how something like that can come to totally dominate your thoughts for a while. I'm better now though :)
My units advanced party has left for home now and it make me realize how much I am going to miss everyone. Some of the people out here have become like family and seeing them go is so sad.... then there are other people who I just can't wait to see go because every moment I was trapped here with them felt like a moment down the drain.... completely useless and I will never get it back. You either grow to love or hate someone when you are exposed to them over a 6 month period of time on an almost 24 hour basis.
I will miss my roommate so much! We have become like best friends and it have been so refreshing after dealing with men all day and having to play the part of Marine and everything that being a Marine entails, that I could come back to my room and just girl talk and giggle with my roommate like I was back home. Just like we were normal everyday girls.... not like someone dressed up and acting like a man which is how I feel sometimes. Like I have my dad's clothes and gear on and I am just playing at being a Marine. Sometimes I look in the mirror once I have all my gear on and I don't recognize myself at all and I think I look like a little boy or something. It's strange. By saying all this I am not meaning that females are not fully capable of what we are tasked with out here.... I am just saying that I don't think it comes naturally to us like it does to men and it just takes some getting use to. After 5 years in the Marine Corps I wonder if I will ever get use to it....
In all the bustling around I have been able to score some good stuff though. I got a new filing cabinet and a printer from someone else that left.... I am waiting for everyone to leave so I can snatch up a good desk chair and then even maybe a new office space... I figure that's just one of the perks I get for extending out here. I get to swoop in and get all the good stuff while the new people are all still wandering around with a confused look on their faces. They are trying to figure out which way to go to get to the chow hall and I will be stealing their mousepad or something. They have a saying.... there is only one thief in the Marine Corps, the rest of us are just trying to get our stuff back :)
Here is a picture of a fountain outside of the Mosque... it really looks out of place because surrounding it is all sorts of barbed wire and barriers because it is near the entry to the CMOC.
My units advanced party has left for home now and it make me realize how much I am going to miss everyone. Some of the people out here have become like family and seeing them go is so sad.... then there are other people who I just can't wait to see go because every moment I was trapped here with them felt like a moment down the drain.... completely useless and I will never get it back. You either grow to love or hate someone when you are exposed to them over a 6 month period of time on an almost 24 hour basis.
I will miss my roommate so much! We have become like best friends and it have been so refreshing after dealing with men all day and having to play the part of Marine and everything that being a Marine entails, that I could come back to my room and just girl talk and giggle with my roommate like I was back home. Just like we were normal everyday girls.... not like someone dressed up and acting like a man which is how I feel sometimes. Like I have my dad's clothes and gear on and I am just playing at being a Marine. Sometimes I look in the mirror once I have all my gear on and I don't recognize myself at all and I think I look like a little boy or something. It's strange. By saying all this I am not meaning that females are not fully capable of what we are tasked with out here.... I am just saying that I don't think it comes naturally to us like it does to men and it just takes some getting use to. After 5 years in the Marine Corps I wonder if I will ever get use to it....
In all the bustling around I have been able to score some good stuff though. I got a new filing cabinet and a printer from someone else that left.... I am waiting for everyone to leave so I can snatch up a good desk chair and then even maybe a new office space... I figure that's just one of the perks I get for extending out here. I get to swoop in and get all the good stuff while the new people are all still wandering around with a confused look on their faces. They are trying to figure out which way to go to get to the chow hall and I will be stealing their mousepad or something. They have a saying.... there is only one thief in the Marine Corps, the rest of us are just trying to get our stuff back :)
Here is a picture of a fountain outside of the Mosque... it really looks out of place because surrounding it is all sorts of barbed wire and barriers because it is near the entry to the CMOC.
Here is a picture of a controlled detonation for mortar rounds and C4. The little bricks laying on top is all C4. This was an absolutely huge det for a Explosive ordinance Marine that I did the reenlistment paperwork for. He wanted a huge explosion behind him while he reenlisted but the det ended up being too big and we had to get about a 1/4 of a mile away for safety reasons. I video taped it and even though we were so far away it still shook the camera and we had to take cover to ensure we didn't get hit by any schrapnel.... it was pretty motivating none the less though....
posted by Rachel The Great at 2:17 PM
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