[PacToy]

Yesterday (04-23-07) we had a very big sand storm come through our area. It put a real hurtin on our operations. The sand storm also made everything dusty and even took out the refer trailer refer that our tray ration meals are in. Explains why we had no hot chow today on our COP. Looks like we will have a few days of straight MREs to come. I also seem to have found out that even though we are in a SWA hut, my cubicle has a nifty little leak that allowed a stream of red dust to fall on my face all night long. Murphy's Law as always.

Today 04-24-07

We made a convoy run to KV. We finally got to eat in a very nice chow hall where you actually had choices of food to choose from and it was GOOD too! I had sliced pork, corn, rice w/ brown gravy if anybody cares.

While at KV we found out that the new ECM unit we were to have installed wasn't complete and therefore couldn't be installed. So we ended up turning the whole convoy into a Log run and grabbed as many items from supply, the post office and the little PX as we could. Still the best part was the chow and mail. Those together made it all worth the effort.

While at KV I found out I have an addiction. I'm addicted to stall graffiti. You know you are addicted when you hunt down the stall with the most smut in it. Yep, that is me. I do this every time I need to drop the kids off at the pool and the KV stalls have nice white walls in them that make for some good smut writing. Some pretty interesting stuff to be seen and read in there ya know! Hey, I'm not a writer, I'm a reader. The best part if you take a glance at the Iraqi stalls on KV they do the same thing except in Arabic.

There is a good bit more I would like to tell all the mudders but I'm exhausted and tired. We have a busy day tomorrow and I need to get to sleep soon.

Here are few pics from yesterday and today.

1st pic) The orange sky before the sand storm.

2nd pic) When the storm actually hit. Not the same area shot as by this time we were out in the IP's squad bay when the brunt of it hit. This is taken from the IP's squad bay.

3rd pic) The convoy's long trek back to our COP.