Is rather mundane… My main priority throughout the day is to send situation reports every morning to our theatre lead. It’s actually a very easy task, which one of my counterparts found a way to spend an entire day working on. It takes me about 5 minutes to clean my SITREP up and send it off since I spend the day adding and deleting changes.
Of course being a lead I get to deal with the people too. It’s a lot of fun right now because we have such a good group of guys but I can only imagine how it could be if I didn’t. I really have no power to tell these guys to get off my site if they aren’t making the cut. I can ask the theatre lead to bring them back to our mother hub but that doesn’t satisfy me. Some of the ones I’ve encountered shouldn’t be in this line of work.
Right now I’m sitting on our preflight pad. The weather has started to change, but the days still get hot. Our night crew complained to me about how the A/C unit in our tent wasn’t working and how it was 130 degrees while they were trying to sleep. I wish I could help them more but since I have no vehicle to drive over to talk to anyone, my hands are for the most part tied.
I never noticed it before but communications is a huge issue, particularly at my site. It can be rough here at first but when you get use to it, it isn’t so bad. There is a mile walk to work every morning through the desert. The sand, which is more like fine powder, can be shin deep in some places. But the worst part of the day continues to be the boredom. Trying to find any little bit of busy work to make the day go by faster.
After work and our evening turn over I go to the gym with one of our intel analysts. We jog about a mile to get to the gym and run on the treadmills and then jog back. She’s really cool and it gives me something to look forward to after spending the day at work. Sometimes I wonder why people join the military, not because it’s bad but just because some people don’t seem to like it, and she seems like one of those.
Along those lines, I’m wondering myself whether I want to do another deployment. I’ve really become accustomed to working with this group of marines and my next deployment probably won’t be with them. Although, I’ve often allowed fate to direct me through life and I just focus on following the path, so that’s what I’ll continue to do. I’ll keep my eyes open for opportunity and if it doesn’t come then I’ll continue doing this. I just hope my performance here as site lead will not go unnoticed.
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