Upon arrival here at Balad AB/LSA Anaconda(Armies name for it) we deplaned (@o900hrs) and went straight to a inprocessing briefing. The typical threat stuff and reaction/protective posture information and personnel paperwork.
The NCO I replaced showed up to get me and we waited for the pallets that we assembled of our gear to arrive and it just kept getting hotter. Its been averaging 115-125deg this week they said. Whew! Anyway we packed my stuff in the truck and he took me to my new home. A "POD" they call it. A prefab little box in a row of boxes in a cube of boxes surrounded by other cubes of boxes which are all surround by huge 12' concrete walls for blast protection. So you can never see the boxes just endless concrete walls everywhere. Needles to say I was hard pressed to find monuments to navigate by, it all looked the same.
I must complain here. The military always sees fit to lay gravel everywhere. Well its all smooth round stone (which is not really gravel)that doesn't compact and is very difficult to walk on. They have installed a large amount of sidewalk to get around so its ok.
Anyway I have been learning my way around and the people and the job and so far its not too bad. I will have more soon.
The NCO I replaced showed up to get me and we waited for the pallets that we assembled of our gear to arrive and it just kept getting hotter. Its been averaging 115-125deg this week they said. Whew! Anyway we packed my stuff in the truck and he took me to my new home. A "POD" they call it. A prefab little box in a row of boxes in a cube of boxes surrounded by other cubes of boxes which are all surround by huge 12' concrete walls for blast protection. So you can never see the boxes just endless concrete walls everywhere. Needles to say I was hard pressed to find monuments to navigate by, it all looked the same.
I must complain here. The military always sees fit to lay gravel everywhere. Well its all smooth round stone (which is not really gravel)that doesn't compact and is very difficult to walk on. They have installed a large amount of sidewalk to get around so its ok.
Anyway I have been learning my way around and the people and the job and so far its not too bad. I will have more soon.
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Woohoo.. thanks for the pictures! Man that plane ride must be wierd with no windows, might take a bit to get used to it.
There's a gigantic window in the back. They only open it up to parachute people/things or to offload cargo.
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