This place sucks. I don't know why it's so hard now, but five years ago it was a lot easier. Back then when I was mobilizing to Egypt, we could rent cars, go off post, wear civilian clothes, etc. They're basically treating us like we're almost in boot camp. We get PX runs occasionally, and we can order pizza. We hardly know what training we're going to get from one day to another.

This is the way they're treating us now as we are mobing to Afghanistan.

I got nearly all my newly issued equipment and clothing. They didn't have the body armor in my size so I'm stuck with an old style IBA until the new one comes in. Not only that, I sucked during rifle qualification. Most of it was genuine dumbassery on my part, but my rifle has a serious issue. It fires two bullets on occasion; once when the trigger is pulled the first time, then again when I release the trigger. They're gonna eventually get me a different rifle.

At least the pay is good, and we have internet in the WW2 barracks they stuck us in. The only other thing I have to look forward to is getting 4 days off for thanksgiving.