Live fire and the rain!

Yesterday we were out at the range firing the m249. over all it was a fun time though i think that the whole range and communications could have gone better. There were 12 of us at the range 4 from each company with 2 weapons from each company. Right away when we got there we had a mishap with communications. the m249 has a dts-4 night site, kind of like night vision goggles, and we unknowingly were supposed to bring these to the range, and it was our fault that we didn't bring them. and when the 1lt left with the van while we were still in the middle of unloading she took our MREs so at lunch time we needed to wait to get our lunch. right when we started firing we had two weapons break. one had a broken spring in the feed tray and the other the charging handle was binding. so there were 4 weapons for 12 people to qualify on and only the first people to shoot got to zero the weapon. overall firing the weapon was a lot of fun, but all of the hoops that we had to jump through kind of made it kind of stressful.
today has been pretty interesting we were supposed to have a relaxing day with not much to do. and things definitely changed. instead of getting to relax after breakfast we had to take the PT test that we were going to be taking thursday we took after breakfast. after showering and resting for about 30 minutes we went down stairs for lunch and instead of eating lunch we ended up going to move aircraft into hangers because it was supposed to be really stormy. we got out there and they wanted two more birds moved into the hangers. there were two tug drivers and nobody else moving aircraft. the 8 people that went out to get the last two birds and when we got them into the hanger there were a bunch of other people from B and C companies sitting in the hanger. By this time we were SOAKING wet. we had our gortex jackets on and we were still wet underneath them, and my pants were drenched. it was raining hard enough that my gortex jacket was holding water in the pockets. by the time that we had picked up our kevlars, it had stopped raining. we spent the next hour moving more aircraft into different configurations in different hangers. There were a lot of pilots there because there were supposed to be flights going on. those pilots thought that they were the experts on moving aircrafts. it took probably twice the amount of time. they were trying to put 10 aircraft in a hanger that was built for 8 at the most.
after that we had time to relax. i read about 75 pages in my book and then fell asleep. we went to chow came back and went to prep for the land nav class that we will be doing on thursday.
i hope that everyone at home is doing well! i hope to hear from you soon!
Signing Off