Day 10

Today we went to the range in our strykers which just got here. Me and Thompson fired the 240B machine gun on a tripod mount. Zimmer was there to coach us or whatever. He kind of made me mad because he has an odd way of helping, kind of getting in the way. at any rate, we fired at dumpsters out in the desert with 200 round belts with tracers. It was pretty cool, even for a hot day. we woke up early to go out there but there was no point because people had to go refuel and we got out there late. The army is such a huge operation that it takes a lot longer than you think it would to get things done. The 240 is a really cool machine gun. They also trained us on the Russian designed PKM machine gun which is basically the same thing. Back at Fort Lewis I got the chance to fire the AT4 missile which was really cool. The days keep on passing by quickly even if there's a lot of work to do and I haven't had any anxiety or worries. I don't even miss home. Hopefully they'll give us leave coming up in June or July.