The Marine in Search of a Pillow....: 01/09/06

Monday, January 09, 2006

The Last Samurai

[Edited: Now is complete and doesn't cut off at two minutes now]

Back when all of us (my friends and I) were in Jacksonville, we'd made a couple of goofy videos, one of which has to deal with pillows in some way (which I'll be posting probably on Friday if this works). Well, we'd made a couple before that and this was part of the first one. It was a movie skit we did on how NOT to witness to unsaved people. This clip was part of that whole movie, along with another I'll try and post tomorrow, that is all that's left of that movie. It definitely showcases how ... imaginitive we can be. So enjoy, as you see why we could easily be mistaken for retards.

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New training pics - including night vision!

Hey everyone.

Well, today was definitely one of the best days I've had here so far. Went to the gym, got in a really good workout, felt great. Went to the classroom and started getting taught such things as calling in MedEvacs and Air and Artillery support. Then, we did this neat IED spotter exercise where they placed 10 IEDs out in this kind of wooded and watery area and we had 15 minutes to find them all. As far as I know, only 4 people actually found all of them and I was the second fastest with 10 minutes. Good stuff.

Then they told us of our op - for tonight. Our mission was a night driving one where we had the option of using NVGs (Night Vision Goggles) and we were driving the Zodiacs in a six boat column. Oh yeah it was fun. Those things go 25 knots in the water and they are extremely fun to drive. I drove for quite a bit tonight and it made up for a lot of the junk that goes on here.

The above image and the one to the right are of us building terrain models to practice on calling in air strikes and being to judge distance and such. It was fun making the thing for the most part. Definitely got taught a lot.

And the rest of these are from us getting the boats ready for our night driving.