Dust storm; the math

There was a dust storm here on day 2, I think that is was gave me the cold and fever
I have now. I always seem to start out deployments like this.

So I brought a small digital voice recorder with me on the trip, I have already been using it to record diary entries. If I record 5 minutes a day, for 120 days, that's 10 hours of recording, probably more than anyone would want to hear about this trip.

Oh, and I'll be posting an email here I wrote on the way over, it helps explain my new motivation for blogging/recording history.

I can only access blogger through the morale center computers, so I have to make a stop on my way to or from work. I wish I could just email entries in and have them post automatically. I am working swing shift, although this name is misleading...I work about 1900L to 0600L. I think this shift is called swings (instead of nights) because the times shifted at some point from a real swing (~1600-0200) and they never bothered to change the name. The "day" shift is midnight to noon, and the "night" shift is noon to midnight.

My good buddy Scott from the Herc world is here, but he works days, so I haven't yet seen him face to face. He's a WIC grad and is working tactics for the herc squadron here.

We are currently operating out of a HAS down on the flightline, but will be moving shortly.