15 January 2006

In the Middle of a Training Exercise

We are doing a training event that involves everyone in the brigade that I will be deploying with. We are running 24-hour operations which means that I'm working 12-hour shifts. I report to the operations center at 0700 and my shift ends at 1900 (7pm). I usually don't get out of there until close to 8pm since I have to brief the oncoming shift and we all have to sit through an update on major events of the day. This exercise will go on for a few more days and then we will prepare for our temporary move to Fort Polk, Louisiana.