Friday, May 19, 2006
Bored
It’s been a week of waiting patiently at Al Asad. We’ve been studying up on the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that we’re going to employ while controlling aircraft, and trying to find out as much as possible about the areas that we are going to work in. This morning we took our rifles to a range here on the base to check the zero on our optics and practice some close quarters marksmanship.
The rest of the company has been busy throughout Iraq. Although they have been employing aircraft daily, they have controlled relatively few attacks on insurgent positions. Funny that we spent so much time in the States training to drop bombs when it is a pretty rare activity over here. However, it is the one thing that we can least afford to screw up, so in the end it makes plenty of sense. Despite the rarity of getting ordnance off of aircraft, ANGLICO is still managing to put a dent in the country’s “muj” (mujahadeen) population, so all is well. ¶ Friday, May 19, 2006
It’s been a week of waiting patiently at Al Asad. We’ve been studying up on the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that we’re going to employ while controlling aircraft, and trying to find out as much as possible about the areas that we are going to work in. This morning we took our rifles to a range here on the base to check the zero on our optics and practice some close quarters marksmanship.
The rest of the company has been busy throughout Iraq. Although they have been employing aircraft daily, they have controlled relatively few attacks on insurgent positions. Funny that we spent so much time in the States training to drop bombs when it is a pretty rare activity over here. However, it is the one thing that we can least afford to screw up, so in the end it makes plenty of sense. Despite the rarity of getting ordnance off of aircraft, ANGLICO is still managing to put a dent in the country’s “muj” (mujahadeen) population, so all is well. ¶ Friday, May 19, 2006
