“Iraqi” Life
Here’s another one from Ryan…
It’s cold. Real cold. I don’t care what the actual temperature is, I just know I cannot feel my legs. The troops in 3-1’s Alpha Troop seem to know how to deal with it much better than I do. When you hear someone is ‘a soldier,’ you assume the person does alot of physical, labor intensive work. I’ve quickly learned it’s much more than I originally thought and I’m not sure I would have ever been able to without seeing it out here at Ft. Irwin.
In one of the Iraqi ‘towns’ I found an interesting way to spend two weeks. The role players there are made up of soldiers and people hired to act as Iraqis. They live in a series of makeshift buildings arranged in a city setting. It resembles a fort a ten year old dreams of building in his back yard. When they need a new building, the build it. When they need a dining table, they build it. When the basketball goal’s backboard cracks, they fix it. It was actually kind of peaceful to hang out and not really think about anything of any importance for an hour or so.
I’m ready to go to sleep and wake up with some sun shining. It’s cold and it’s hard to shoot any video without any light!
