Here at Camp Virginia, we’ll conduct one more week’s worth of training before reporting to our respective commands in Iraq, Afghanistan or Djibouti. We’ll get more HUMVEE instruction, including how to egress a HUMVEE that has flipped over -- an unfortunately common occurrence in theater -- and another convoy exercise which will include live fire and role players (the two of course, are mutually exclusive). The convoy exercise, to be held later this week, will be held in a remote area called the Udairi range where we will sleep over two nights. Udairi has none of the palatial amenities that we enjoy at Camp Virginia, thus preserving the trend of encountering worse quarters at each subsequent stop on this deployment.
Yesterday, we kicked off with the time honored practice of filling out travel claims that covered the first part of our deployment. If one has been in the military for more than week, one already knows that this process hardly ever works the first time. Yet, we have been assured the finance people here take great pride in fixing pay problems and executing travel claims.
At present, I’m only $125 in the hole, which was the charge for my week’s stay at the Bachelor Officer’s Quarters (BOQ) at NMPS, San Diego, whose lavish indoor plumbing, cable television, large bed, and hard wire Internet access, are now but a halcyon memory.
Yesterday, we kicked off with the time honored practice of filling out travel claims that covered the first part of our deployment. If one has been in the military for more than week, one already knows that this process hardly ever works the first time. Yet, we have been assured the finance people here take great pride in fixing pay problems and executing travel claims.
At present, I’m only $125 in the hole, which was the charge for my week’s stay at the Bachelor Officer’s Quarters (BOQ) at NMPS, San Diego, whose lavish indoor plumbing, cable television, large bed, and hard wire Internet access, are now but a halcyon memory.
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