DAY 29 / DEC 27
Woke up this morning with a plan to do some things, and had it subsequently shot completely to hell by the arrival of the last 15 of my personnel on the convoy. It was good to see them again. The Commander finally arrived, so my time in charge has come to an end � ah, well, it was fun while it lasted. I�m happy to hand over the reigns to someone else.
So, the convoy arrived this morning right about the time I was in the shower, and as I was getting dressed, I heard a knock on the door. It was one of the troops from the convoy, and although I knew that, it didn�t register what his presence knocking on my door went. My first instinct was to ask him what he wanted. As he told me that they had just arrived and were told to find me, it occurred to me who it was, and what it meant.
We got the troops settled in and then were told they had another mission. They had to go back out and take the empty trucks they had escorted back to another place around here (about three hours away). I tried to get another set of patrol people to take over, but they decided it was best if they take the trucks back because they had already worked together, knew the system, and could handle it.
Our gun-trucks picked up a lead truck (because we had never driven the route before) and began the convoy brief. During the brief, everyone heard a loud pop and looked around. Apparently a crew-member from the other unit had forgotten about the white phosphorous round in his weapon and fired it into the ground and into a ditch where it went off. Whoops. The convoy mission was cancelled until an investigation was completed.
I moved from my
We began setting up our equipment and by the end of the week, should be ready to begin the take over of the mission on this FOB.
Our convoy to take the trucks back should leave in the morning.
Friday we will have to drive to another FOB to set up supply contacts and possibly bring back some much needed equipment.
No comments:
Post a Comment