a week in

Well, we have been here for a week now and things are finally picking up. About two days ago we started getting our aircraft in from the port. The first couple of days were pretty much just getting used to the heat. Other than that we had a few classes that we had to take, but most of them only lasted for about an hour and the rest of the time we just had to hang out seeing the sites (not much… mainly sand and… sand and… yeah, more sand.) You can only go to the PX and the Internet Café so many times before you get bored. Other than that, I have beat the original final fantasy, finished a book that I started on the flight over here. Gotten plenty of sleep.
Now that the aircraft are here we have finally gotten to start doing what we are supposed to be doing. Tomorrow morning is my first flight since leaving Fort Sill over a month ago. For the last three days we have been getting the helicopters ready for all of the sand and making them safer for the crew by putting in ballistic plates. When we flew the helicopters to port back in the states we loaded them all up with a ton of equipment to get them shipped over here, and now that they are here we had to unload all of them. Today we did a bunch of dailies to make sure that the birds are ready to go when we start flying them tomorrow. The flight schedule for tomorrow is pretty crazy busy. EVERYBODY from A Co. is flying at least an hour. Some of our trainers are flying 4 hours. That is going to be a long day.
hope that everyong is doing ok, miss you all
Signing off