fun for chirstmas yeah work lol I've been working alot going on my 3rd day of 4 hours of sleep no breaks no naps I guess weekends here mean work harder too lol saturday I went to the M4 range zerod my weapon for the millionth time, it was kind of a slow day at the range I caught up on my sleep during the day the previous night I was on a wild goose chase to find my 88 from 1am to 4am then after the M4 range we went to the motor pool which is 5 miles away from our tent and pulled all our weapons out of the conex for the tanks, the after being really sick all day I went down to motor pool for the second night to find my 88 didnt see it walked back was told it was some were further then the motor pool walked further picked it up, fueled  went to bed at 1 am woke up the next morning ready to drive to the range 5am in the morning the convoy got lost on the way there had to turn back and drive twice far agian lol before we got to the range once again another chill day at the tank range till the end we started to drive back I had to tow one tank back because it blew a fire bottle, then on convoy way back on tank decide to drop its mine blow and pole valt over it this happend during twilight the sun goes down at 5pm here the tank was fine I had to use my 88 skills to get mine plow out from under it from there I had to carry the mine plow back with me using the boom we tied it with chains to the front put the lock out blocks in (basicaly steel plates keeps the supention from moving) bounce my happy ass back to the camp for 2 hours strait at 5 mph towing the other tank behind dont know if you ever riden a non suspention vehical off road NOT FUN felt like I was in a car accedent the next morning by the time I was able to go to bed with out a
 shower it was 1 am that leaves me with today we put a new fancy coupla on our 88, took all the mine plows off to upgrade the tanks to a new system cant say anything else classified about that dont think I should even say that much but I dont know what harm can come from that intel anyways it looks like tonight I'll be able to get some early rest good thing too, tommorrow I'm officaly off the 88 and becoming a tanker for first platoon hurra, now I get to shoot people in the face lol, well not much more to say I pretty much summed up the last 3 days of hell in a short email hopfully I'll have a little more relaxed  week this week I doubt it we should be going up north to Iraq by the end of the month wish me luck hopfully I'll get on here again tommorrow