What a day. It's not an unusual event around here to spend hours and hours in pax(passenger) terminals waiting on military transportation. My team and I did just that today. Oh we were definitely "space-blocked" and on the manifest. We even rode the bus out to the waiting C130 with the other passengers. It wasn't until then that we were told there was only room for 11 due to the restricted load plan. I gave up our spots to a group of soldiers that were headed home on R&R. I thought it wouldn't be any problem to get manifested on a later flight. Wrong!! Cargo flights only to Baghdad and they were closed out. Since my team has a mission to perform we had to get a flight. So we headed over to "Catfish Air", which is the Army helicopter portion of the flight line. We're still waiting to find out. The mission to Baghdad may get put on hold for a day or so. All of these aircraft at LSAA and no space for six soldiers. We'll get to where we're going though. It just might be a day or two late. Stay tuned.
It rained cats and dogs last night turning every bare spot of dirt into a muddy quaqmire. I can't really describe Iraq mud and give it justice. It's like sticky bondo goo that won't come off no matter how hard you pound your boots. You literally have to wait until it's completely dry and then chisel it off like cement. Ok, gotta go for now....
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