A picture of the inside of the tent.

We moved to the Forward Operating Base (FOB) today at Fort Benning to help simulate life in Iraq and Afghanistan. We live in a huge open bay tent with industrial air-conditioners and 200 beds.

Sort of reminds me of the APOD at Doha.

This week we are going to focus on mounted and dismounted patrols in squads (about 10 or so soldiers) and Platoons (about 40 soldiers). Tomorrow, we have a live fire exercise where one team in a squad will have to flank around and assault from the side. I guess I’ll just have to trust the team providing covering fire will stop firing during the assault.

TTYL,

JW