| Thursday 26 July 2001
2113 Tainted...even the thing I will miss most in the military... Today's jump on Ie Shima was supposed to be done by 1300...we left the 1-1 SFG(A) compound about 0800 and proceeded to wait hours while the bird was fixed. Finally chuted up about 1100, boarded the plane, and jumped around 1215... Then we waited...waited on the DZ, stealing shade from trees while we watched local nationals building what appeared would be a fire station, emergency response center for i guess the DZ. Waited about 3 hours. The air force "guy" in charge of the DZ that day I guess...brought us a couple packets of tuna, some bread, and pbj mix. Reminded me of the time I was in boy scouts and we went on a 50 mile backpacking trip in the SIerra Nevadas. We had a layover day before a hard climb and one of the scoutmasters got some extra food from fellow campers...bread and slabs of cheese never tasted so good... Finally get home around 1800...Pick up a few slices of pizza cuz I'm just too tired to cook dinner, jump in the shower to relieve the heated, sweaty corpse of a body...so tired all i want to do is sleep, but of course I can't. Even the one thing i truly truly love I can't get without a friggin hassle. go figure. Even monday, the jump i so tried to glorify...even that night we had some serious waiting on our asses all tired dirty and sweaty... I could understand if there was a purporse...I mean heavens..please, this is the friggin army. We GET dirty, we GET sweaty, we DO strenous things, get tired and just wish we could be home...but gaaaahhhhhh at least there could be a better reason than faulty joint forces planning... Bah! I'm just cranky I guess. not really the air force's fault the bird was down and it interferred with their schedule as WELL as ours...grrrr I don't know sometimes I just don't know. current mood: cranky
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