Thursday, June 18, 2009

backstory

Going to sleep should not be hard. All day in the sun, every minute accounted for, training to fight or in our case training to clean. Since we have been here all we have done has revolved around cleaning. The bathrooms, scrub the stalls, scrub under the stalls, clean the drains of the sink, clean under the sink. every morning for 2 weeks we have cleaned. Even when we think something exciting is going to happen we continue to clean, get a rifle clean it, change to boots, shine them, swith belt buckles, it better shine. If the next war is one on dirt we are prepared.

Where is the training, the posters have pictures of men jumping out of helicopters(with dirty faces) of soldiers treading through water. so Far we have sauntered to breakfast lunch and dinner and only