Happy September

Just like the many journals I have started and have died of neglect, the posts on here are getting further and further apart. Part of that is because of our crazy schedule and a little bit could be contributed to laziness. My goal is at least two updates this month =)
During the last month, I was once again at the jss for a week, bringing my total time there to a month. I am more than happy to have left Alpha Battery behind me. When I came back the battery had moved into surge housing as our replacements were moving into our former quarters, so my whole platoon was in one not-too-large room. I was there about ten days during which time we sat at the Rte Islanders tcp's (traffic control points) in 12 hour shifts and I caught a slight cold. I had a couple days off =) and went out on my last mission on the 29th. We left Taji on 1 Sept and flew to Camp Stryker on Chinooks (for those of you with limited militatry knowledge, those are the really big ones with two rotors) =) We spent two days there and were SUPPOSED to leave yesterday. We got up at 0530 and were at the airfield by 0730. We sat out under this open tin roof until 1800 when our ride developed 'mechanical problems' so they bussed us to nearby Camp Liberty. We spent the night and are supposedly leaving tonight. We'll see. While we were at the airfield I read a 350 pg book and somehow managed to burn one bicep. huh?
That's pretty much it. If I don't post again in the next week, somebody write and yell at me ;)