If it ain't raining, We ain't training!

So this is post 2 of my blog. Post 2 of many that is. Reason for me naming it 'if it ain't raining, we ain't training' is because here at "lovely" Camp Atterbury [not] it is ALWAYS raining! It's pretty ridiculous.

 Recently, we been having lots of real-world type of exercises and while I have some down time at my work station (which is very rare) I'll share some more stuff with you all of some of the training we've been doing. After all, I am trying to catch up.

So I did not mention in my last post what a PRT is. PRT stands for Provincial Reconstruction Team. In simpler terms, what we do is conduct civil-military operations in Zabul Province to extend the reach and legitimacy of the Government of Afghanistan. We want the Afghanistan government to be able to do things on their own. We are trying to get them to that point. Now with that said, I can show ya'll more photos.

Little by little we all have our time to shine. Our Air Force services Airmen are doing a good job. Although I've always known what they do at home station, I wondered what they "really" do in a deployed environment. I don't mean at a nice well built base, I mean what they do "in the field". Well my stomach and I are happy to have them in our unit. They actually provide us with warm chow [that's food for you civilians and I say that with love] and serve it to us in the field. Of course, we aren't getting 3 hot meals daily but at least one hot meal a day is very appreciative.



Airman 1st Class Steven Armenta serves us some hot chow




Senior Airman Sarah Baker feeds service members from several PRTs

A few weeks ago, we practiced Team Live Fire. This is very foreign to most Air Force personnel. Normally, Air Force deployments are nothing like this deployment. When do you ever picture the "AIR Force" [notice the air being in caps] doing house clearance. Well, maybe our Spec Ops would. Well with going with our Army brother-in-arms, we were able to learn all that fun stuff. Because of me having to learn all that stuff and us running from one training to the other, I wasn't able to take much photos of it but here are the few.





Instructors demonstrate team live fire movements




Demonstrating once again




Simulating a door check



I wish I had taken more photos of all this BUT this is a fail on my part. I will jot this down on my naughty list and fix it next time. NO EXCUSES.

After team live fire, I documented our SECFOR do some Squad Live Fire. Now this I was able to cover a little more in detail. Basically, they had to get from one location to the other while taking fire. Since they're taking fire, they had to maneuver to the other side as a squad. Well here's a little more [photos and audio slideshow].



Specialist Paul Bradley gets ready for night squad live fire




A U.S. Army soldier takes a knee during a break




Soldiers takes cover during an exercise



Staff Sergeant Reynolds gives a command to his squad




Specialist Christopher Perez listens to his after action report




Soldiers participate in a squad live fire exercise




Private Washington is the freshest soldier out of boot camp
 in our PRT. Recently got promoted to Private



This is definitely a rough audio slideshow. As it being only my second one ever done [both being done alone] I am not going to beat myself in the head too much for it, but I do know I need some improvement and I know that I can do better with some practice. I always accept critiques especially from my photographers, journalist and video folks. Feel free to e-mail me or comment on here. I have thick skin so no worries. Stay tuned for another post in the near future.