Filling the well

These past couple of days have been about the same around here, making the earthen berms higher, putting in flat-wire around the perimeter, filling sand bags. You know, the boring manual labor stuff. The camp is beginning to feel like home. Our EOD team did discover a deep well in the vicinity of the camp, containing IED making material. The EOD team considered blowing it up, but the supply of TNT and C4 is on the low side.

Hence, operation "GO FILL THE WELL UP". Armor Group TL Steve and myself got the Haji's and one large bulldozer and set off to complete the mission. It is amazing just how deep the insurgents may go to find things to blow up our asses.

The mission took about 2 1/2 hours to complete, once done we decided, Hell we have a bulldozer, lets demo any standing building, (Boys with big real Tonka toys are a bad thing) flattened them all out. Of course we checked the area for ordinance before haji dozed and as luck would have it, a souvenir. One authentic Iraqi army helmet. That I will take home and hide from the wife.

Well, that's another day gone, and one day closer to going home. New Years is just two days away, and I hope you all drink responsibly, or if not, drink excessively for me and pass out. Rebecca, I Love and Miss You. Give Megs hug and a kiss for me. Shelby if you found out about this site, I Love you too.

Happy New Years

Love and Miss You All

Chris