Hello all,
It has been a good weekend. The command has been off post all week for an ATX (a week in the field.) so one of the W4s has been running the flight schedules. one of the nice things about that is we start the night flights at 2100 when it gets dark and not at 10. and the other thing is that we don't spend a lot of time doing things that we don't need to so we get out of there when we are done with all of the flight training that we need. friday we started at 9 and we only took about an hour and a half. and we were back here by midnight. it is pretty nice when you don't have to spend a full 12 hours at the airfield.
saturday was also a nice day. we had some bad weather in the area so we only had the first of the two periods fly. i was supposed to fly the late period, but weather made it otherwise. we chained down the aircraft and then went home it was nice to get home early again.
on sunday there was only one flight period for the new crew chief that just got his up slip. we had a maintenance event on one of the helicopters that took about an hour. and then we changed a tire. we built up a couple of more tires just to have them ready. when the flight got back we finished up his helicopter and what we were doing and we were done for the day.
today was a very good day. we were supposed to have to take a PT test this morning and there were a few of us that were confused because we had passed the first pt test that we took a month ago. we found out yesterday that it was only for the people who needed a second chance at the test. so the people who had passed the first time didn't have to be there, and got to sleep in. at noon when i went outside, they had steak that was provided by one of the recently promoted Platoon Sergeants because he couldn't buy beer for us. the steak was really good. and it was a hell of a lot better than the d-fac food that we eat every day. after lunch a couple of guys and i went to the bowling alley we had a lot of fun we bowled 4 games and killed about 3 hours. it was a good time. after that we came back here and watched some tv. we hung out and ordered some pizza for dinner. after dinner i hung out with my roommates and talked about home for a while. it was nice to have a day off. we really didn't expect to have it off.
I hope that everyone at home is doing well.
Signing off
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Glad to hear you had a good weekend, sounds like a lot of fun. Laura, Brady and I went to the cabin and I did a lot of work. I dug a big trench infront of the cabin to lower the water pipes to keep the rain water out of the cabin, next weekend Phil and i will build a retaining wall to keep the hole there. We also poured new footings for the deck as it is slowly falling down the hill. I was tired by the end of the weekend and ready to go home. Talk to you soon
Adam
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