Last few days I have been in the Army Blue Force Tracker operator course. Its a complex computer system that is like a GPS tracking system for units on the battlefield...I don't know how much more I can say about it, but its really high tech..Ill be an operator for the system tomorrow after a 4 hour final! Life is the same at Ft Hood, up at 04:45, eat, formation and go to work/class/training...what ever you have for the day. Its pretty uninteresting right now...we have been given fairly firm time frames for departure to SouthWest Asia, which are about what I have shared with most everyone. We have been in language lab learning basic Iraqi language and some regional customs, dos and donts when interfacing with the population. I have been re-assigend to the Redistribution section in Support Operations..Ill be in charge of an Air Force team that will go out and close down a FOB (forward operating base) in Iraq. When the govt of the USA leaves a FOB, it is handed over to the Iraqis, however the US pulls back all of the serviceable equipment on the FOB to redistribute to other areas or inventory and ship back home. Ill be involved in this operation, I have been told I will have ample opportunity to "chopper or convoy" to these areas throughout my commands area of responsibility and assist in the closing of the FOB's. Sounds interesting. With Obamas pledge to pull back troops, this job will likely be pretty busy, especially the second half of my tour. Anyway gotta go for now.
Bryan
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Considering you don't know how to use mapquest, your new gps training might have them landing a chopper in Cuba!
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