Falcon

I intended to do this post yesterday, but I feared that I might dose off while doing it. At the start of this week I never thought I would be alive to update up blog today because of a little exercise called Falcon 2. It started on monday where we moved to our FOB (forward operatng base) to plan the first mission. After accomplishing our first mission, we went back to home base on wednesday and immediately plan for the second one, moving out on thursday and coming back on friday after accomplishing the second mission.

There were alot of surprises while we were doing the mission, although not altogether unexpected. We had to deal with hostile "civilians" on our way to the objective, enemy reinforcements and destorying targets of opportunity that we did not plan for but were important none the less. All in all, they really planned this very realistically.

This was the most shag exercise I have been involved in to date, which is prep for the ATEC we are having on Thailand next month. Climbing up and down knolls, carrying the weight, going through terrain that no sane person would ever walk on, not being able to see the outstretched hand in front of you even with the new gen 3 NSEAs (night vision) that we were given and to top it all off, dealing with a riot and a monk carrying a bomb.

But this week I really learn to dig deep into God's strength because I really had none left, I am afraid to close my eyes because I know and I will immediately dose off if I do. That was how shag I was. Some of my peers were even sleepwalking. So I thank God for providing me with his strength for without it even the day to day things I do in camp might seem too tough and daunting.