Day One: Rainy Mission
Posted on November 17th, 2009 by ZackWell to start off the blog I will throw up some of todays dealings.
We started the day off it was raining. I got word to be on standby. Rain and Lightning equals no go. Although later in the morning we got word we were rolling.
Well me being new and not realizing I had left my gear where it would get rained on, it was soaked. So I started the day off on a rough note. We briefed and got on the road. Once we got to the site we dropped the pacs off and pulled security. Not so bad I was thinking. Although I am a gunner and had to stay in the truck the whole 4 hours. What fun I thought, this is awesome. Me and my driver bullshitting the whole time.
Well by this time sitting here truck 2 was having electrical issues and was about to die. Sucked because we thought we would have to tow this thing h