hello all,
things are going well here, i had my first mission flight in 3 weeks yesterday, that was a lot of fun to get back into. i had lost the system that i had all set up for getting ready to go fly, but once i got that going, everything went smoothly. we went through the test fire area and the 1st sergeant managed to hit a bird. we basically did two separate missions last night. we moved people around bagdad last night and then we moved people around north east iraq. we even had a break in the middle. we were all over getting to where we needed to be early. last night we would get to the places early enough that we would have to sit for 5-10 minutes before we left to the next place, then we would still have to sit there. but it was pretty cool because we had a good crew and had some good conversations. after our trip to bagdad we came back here for a break, the crew here had dinner for us, they had a bunch of food for us, and because two of our pilots had their birthdays yesterday they brought us a cake from the chow hall too. it was pretty entertaining. after that we brought a bunch of people to NE iraq. we did that pretty fast too. we landed in one place and they told us that the people that we were supposed to be picking up were going to get on a set of snooks that were coming behind us. so we got out of their really early. and that pushed our entire timetable forward. we got home really early and the guys back here were so bored that they did our dailies for us and we got out of their really fast. after that i had to try and stay awake for a while because i have to be at work until 0630 tomorrow morning. but i don't start til 1830 today so it shouldn't be too bad.
well, i need to get ready for work so i will talk to you all again soon!
hope everything is going well for everyone, and stay safe!
Signing off