It is too difficult to try to remember everything for a nice and well developed posting, so I thought I would just do some little ones to keep on track.
Today was a busy day. Picked up the new Major last night, Maj Macneil? I can't remember his name jsut yet. He seems like a nice person. Will see how he works out.
It is fighting season so everyone is getting all their ammo to sustain themselves through the season. It is sad that there is a fighting season at all. We have had a unit that has been getting ammo from us by the truck load-which is a good thing. Good because less to count and deal with, but, bad because it is a lot of paperwork. Mostly for Satar to deal with, not so much me. I need to get all the numbers from him though so I can report the numbers up. We are also doing an inventory of all of the containers. Not an easy feat at all. Been working away at this for some time now, about 2 or 3 months. Just not enough time to get it all done so quickly. So while Satar has been issuing out of some containers, we have been counting in others. I told him it is good teamwork to do it this way. It is hard for us to get locked down in the ASP because of weapons issues or other objectives come up. He is going to be gone tomorrow and has given the go ahead for us to inventory while he is gone. That is a great giant step that he trusts me to do that. I have offered on more then one occasion, but, this time he said yes.
Today I was bent all in an akward position trying to count some grenades that were hidden behind some other assets, they were in boxes of course. But, I was in a really crazy position and I had told Nyozi to add up what I was calling out and to write it down. So I get myself all contorted and in position and call out to Nyozi-where is he? He went to get some tea. Really? He said the way I was laying down my weapon was pointed straight at him and he didn't want it to go off and shoot him in the head. Fine I guess...but, we got the container counted.
A funny thing happened with Terak, he is one of Satar's NCOs. He is a good little dude, a hard worker and he makes us laugh a lot. Well we have these chinese locks on the containers that just suck. They rust badly, the keys bend easily and they are just a pain to get opened. I am doing my best to cut and replace as many as I can. Satar yelled at Terak for cutting one, but, we couldn't get it open or find the key so we cut it, which is fine with me. So we got to another and we told Terak he had 3 tries to get it opened. Again, I plan on replacing them all, you can get in with a rock if you bang the lock enough. So for the first 2, no go. Then it came to the last one and wow he contemplated, did some counting of the keys-none of them are marked-another on the project list....and then he went to open the lock. Nope and he just laughed and shook his head-I was on my way to get a lock from the truck already. Then we are cutting it off and Satar comes up with 3 other rings of chinese lock keys....it was so funny!
That is all for this posting for 17 Apr. Computer stopped working and it has been 10 days since then....
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