from the back a page is ripped out...
I guess its a few more days till I go back to the real field. so we're back at good old Firebase Gloria where I spent all last week getting down and dirty, but only now I'm a student in the TRAP class. so far we've only had regular classes,you know, death by powerpoint..and some cool videos. tomorrow we actually start rehearshing setting up hasty LZ's and communications procedures and the sort. Thursday we do this SERE thing...which is an acronym for something cool sounding..but its basically surviving out there while evading the enemy while trying to get back into friendly hands. these instructors are gonna hunt us..and if we're caught they will try to get certain information from us using any means necessary..if you know what I mean..I've heard it usually ends with a few broken limbs..I guess we'll see. though I don't plan on getting caught..
..oh yeah..I also found out on sunday that 4 of my buddies from SOI got killed in Iraq a few days ago....2 of them were Atkins and Acosta..apparently they were in a humvee and got caught in the blast of an IED.. I knew them both quite well. I still don't know the names of the other two..I don't think I want to know..for obvious reasons..
things have been getting more and more real as of late...I've been having this feeling since I got here..but it's gettin more intense as each week goes by..and I've only been here a month.
the weekends are a safe haven for me though..at least I get to hang on to the past at least a little by spending as much time with devon as possible..everything about hanging out with him feels like home...(while everything at home goes belly up..hows it gonna be when I finaly come back? will I recognize it?) Even though we don't see each other much..I always try to suck in as much of the experience whenever we do cross paths..cause I have a feeling that pretty soon we will split ways..and who knows when our roads will intersect again.
"Sail with me into the setting sun
The battle has been won, but war has just begun
And as we grow, emotion starts to die,
We need to find a way, just to keep our desire alive"
..oh yeah..I also found out on sunday that 4 of my buddies from SOI got killed in Iraq a few days ago....2 of them were Atkins and Acosta..apparently they were in a humvee and got caught in the blast of an IED.. I knew them both quite well. I still don't know the names of the other two..I don't think I want to know..for obvious reasons..
things have been getting more and more real as of late...I've been having this feeling since I got here..but it's gettin more intense as each week goes by..and I've only been here a month.
the weekends are a safe haven for me though..at least I get to hang on to the past at least a little by spending as much time with devon as possible..everything about hanging out with him feels like home...(while everything at home goes belly up..hows it gonna be when I finaly come back? will I recognize it?) Even though we don't see each other much..I always try to suck in as much of the experience whenever we do cross paths..cause I have a feeling that pretty soon we will split ways..and who knows when our roads will intersect again.
"Sail with me into the setting sun
The battle has been won, but war has just begun
And as we grow, emotion starts to die,
We need to find a way, just to keep our desire alive"