sgtdub

18 April 2007, here I am. Ok. we finished our video conference with our Oklahoma National Guard. They are focusing on us getting demobilized and back to Oklahoma. This is the difficult part of the deployment, maintaining our awareness and our missions while still serving here and preparing everything that is required to get us out of here. It's a juggling act for sure. Today I spent the morning going to the downtown camp to take care of some contract issues, part of it was taken care of, the other part will hopefully get taken care of soon. I've been attempting to get this settled for over a month now, and between insurgent activity and the good guys with their "red tape" it's amazing no one has been hurt in the process. I had to release my "very anger face" and held it long enough to get someone to compromise and alleviate the situation this morning. Of course, inside my head, I was just thinking "this is typical b.s. and I'm tired of it" but the outside looked like I was going to "lock and load" on somebody. Well, as I have perfected this look, and believe me, if I'm not cutting up and joking with someone, you know somethings wrong. So, my biggest challenge is holding a straight face for any given length of time.
This afternoon was spent packing up the boxes and getting the forms printed, emailed, filed, blah blah blah. Then I changed over to my P.T. uniform, put on my assault pack, picked up a case of water and put it in the pack and did 3 miles with LTC Y. I forgot to mention we played ping pong yesterday, and forced him into an extended match with him winning 22-20. Yes, a victory in my eyes. Well, it's time for bed now. Thanks for stopping by, be safe and have a great day.