I have been delinquent in my blog duties - sorry for the poor performance but I have been busy sleeping and eating ice cream. No not really but everyone knows I am busy fighting/flying in a war zone so there is no need to point out the obvious - or did I just do that?
Let me give you a run down on what has happen over the last 24 days. In the beginning of Aug I flew for 7 nights straight. According to the regs, "flying 7 days/nights in-a-row is to be avoided if at all possible," because it definitely wears on the mind and body as I am sure you can imagine. So why is it that I needed to fly for a week straight. Well...we had to send a few people and toys away from our location and despite our reduced numbers we still had a mission to accomplish; therefore, we needed to 'make it happen' the best way possible. After a few more work nights I transitioned backed to the day crew which gave me a scheduled day off. However, a situation reared its ugly head and I ended up working 25 hours before I hit the rack. Needless to say I did not have any problem falling asleep that night. But as expected the next few days were pretty tough as my body began the transitions back to daylight hours.
So let's see that takes us to about the 18th of August. The next week or so were filled with more flights over the desert as we had some visitors milling about the squadron that we needed to show around the area. On top of the regular flights we are now starting to prepare for our trip home. As we are well past the half way and approaching the 2/3 point the 'going home line' is starting to come into focus. As a matter of fact we are beginning preparation for our advanced party departure back to CONUS - this is a great sign. I will try to make more of an effort to communicate via the blog. I am also researching the files for some more pics because one pic is always worth a thousand word. Until later - Greg
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