FOB Exercise

We spent all this last week doing a FOB (Forward Operating Base) Exercise. We had a lot of good training. While it was general in nature and in part not realalistic from what we will see in Iraq, some parts of it were very valuable. I can't go into the specific details of the training because its classified. (We don't want the enemy who is probably reading this to know what kind of stuff we are getting trained on!)

Here's a few pictures of me and the area where we lived for the last week.

This is the general FOB area where we stayed. The tents didn't provide a whole lot of shelter from the rain and the dew. Ours leaked like a sift.

Here's me inside the tent posing as RAMBO and holding the SAW, note the ammo belts.

The last two days were kinda boring. I had to do guard duty and block off a couple roads while a live fire (shooting with real bullets) exercise was going on all day.