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haven't been doing so bad lately...i still don't feel good, but the drug craze isn't quite so potent...thank God...it still eats at me a bit, but i have a small hit now and then...i can't replce my guy, not by a long shot, but i did find someplace i can get a little bit without too much trouble...costs a lot, though, and that's a bitch...but hey...supply and demand, i get it...*sigh*...just wish i wasn't on the "demand" end :P
anyway, locals are finished...they went pretty well this time, which is really cool...i got about a day and a half between each mission, so it didn't matter if a mission lasted 25 hours and the customer didn't show up or have the cargo ready, or whatever...H surprised me a lot...i thought the guy was a complete idiot...turns out he just doesn't have shit for common sense and doesn't have a backbone to speak of, but at least he did the mission rotation right so no one got screwed...his heart seems to be in the right place, and that goes a long way with me...he's a hell of a lot better than C anyway...
so...now what?...i don't know, honestly...i doubt i'll be tasked for locals again, seeing as i've done two rotations through already...that means that i'll be going back to Iraq...eventually...see, all the convoy commanders have their little crews that they go out with regularly, and i'm not on one...nothing like being a bastard step-child to hike up morale :P ...least i'm not the only one...all the people stuck with locals are in the same boat, being gone so long that their squad leaders forgot they exist...
it won't matter much, though...soon, they're going to need filler bodies on their crew...i haven't told anyone in my family, but six people in my unit (and thats only about 200 people) were injured last month in seperate incidents...three have been sent back to the States for recovery...nothing too life-threatening, but a couple of them will never be able to use their limb(s) the same way again...
so as we lose people they'll start digging into the "leftovers" crew, and i'll get tasked back to Iraq...its not a big deal, i guess, but i don't want to be on the fucking road for three weeks at a time like i was last time...the crews are rotating in and out so fast they barely get two days from mission end to mission begin...that ain't cool......
i'm rambling...i miss rambling...i miss the days when i actually had shit to say here, even if it was dramatic and whiny...
wow...here's something...
my sister apparently has a friend who told her "its ok, you can talk to my ex, its cool"...lol...in the immortal words of Admiral Akbar, "ITS A TRAP!!"...and alas, it was...poor dumb kid...now she's asking me what to do about it because her friend is all upset and saying "He was my one true love!" even though she cheated on him 3 times...haha...i just told her to go for it...tough shit...god, i'm such a bitter asshole because of girls that don't know what they want...
anyway, locals are finished...they went pretty well this time, which is really cool...i got about a day and a half between each mission, so it didn't matter if a mission lasted 25 hours and the customer didn't show up or have the cargo ready, or whatever...H surprised me a lot...i thought the guy was a complete idiot...turns out he just doesn't have shit for common sense and doesn't have a backbone to speak of, but at least he did the mission rotation right so no one got screwed...his heart seems to be in the right place, and that goes a long way with me...he's a hell of a lot better than C anyway...
so...now what?...i don't know, honestly...i doubt i'll be tasked for locals again, seeing as i've done two rotations through already...that means that i'll be going back to Iraq...eventually...see, all the convoy commanders have their little crews that they go out with regularly, and i'm not on one...nothing like being a bastard step-child to hike up morale :P ...least i'm not the only one...all the people stuck with locals are in the same boat, being gone so long that their squad leaders forgot they exist...
it won't matter much, though...soon, they're going to need filler bodies on their crew...i haven't told anyone in my family, but six people in my unit (and thats only about 200 people) were injured last month in seperate incidents...three have been sent back to the States for recovery...nothing too life-threatening, but a couple of them will never be able to use their limb(s) the same way again...
so as we lose people they'll start digging into the "leftovers" crew, and i'll get tasked back to Iraq...its not a big deal, i guess, but i don't want to be on the fucking road for three weeks at a time like i was last time...the crews are rotating in and out so fast they barely get two days from mission end to mission begin...that ain't cool......
i'm rambling...i miss rambling...i miss the days when i actually had shit to say here, even if it was dramatic and whiny...
wow...here's something...
my sister apparently has a friend who told her "its ok, you can talk to my ex, its cool"...lol...in the immortal words of Admiral Akbar, "ITS A TRAP!!"...and alas, it was...poor dumb kid...now she's asking me what to do about it because her friend is all upset and saying "He was my one true love!" even though she cheated on him 3 times...haha...i just told her to go for it...tough shit...god, i'm such a bitter asshole because of girls that don't know what they want...