The End, At Last!

So this is it huh? This is the feeling of almost leaving Camp Atterbury. It feels AMAZING! I actually wake up with a smile on my face haha. So we've pretty much did it all. Mounted Patrol, a high number of Key Leader Engagements, Site Surveys, Humvee Rollover, shooting a bunch of weapons, combatives, there is too much to name but it was quite an interesting 3 months. I'm looking forward to 7 days of leave to spend it with the family and then return here to depart to Afghanistan. It's time to do some work ladies and gentlemen and I'm excited. Excited to have new experiences, excited to get some awesome photos, excited to concentrate on saving money and getting in crazy shape.  

Well in my last post I told you I'd show you all some photos of us going bowling. Well I won't lie, I got carried away bowling that at a point I actually forgot I had a camera but hey, the point of it was for us to have fun. Well I did. After all, that is the best attitude to have. To make the best out of everything. Well here you go.



Lt. Leonard and his turkeys (3 strikes in a row)

 

I think it was a gutter ball

 

Senior Master Sergeant Simmons getting her game on. Whatttt!

 So the Army has this thing called Modern Army Combative Program. Basically it's grappling the army way. There are several levels of it and you move up as you master the previous level. Well this is new to the Air Force and so we all went through Level 1 along with some other  Army folks. Talk about watching some people struggle. This is new to many folks so it's understandable



Lt. Gutzman learning some new moves.




SrA Chevis resting???




SSgt Montjoy and Lt. Palmore getting their sweat on. Lt was
definitely trying to avoid the photo.




SSgt Wish performing a move on SSgt Giles (pronounced Ji-l-z)

I have many other photos I'd like to post but they are of Key Leader Engagements and I don't want anyone that is not in uniform being really mad at me for not asking for their permission to put their photo on my blog so I will avoid that but I'll briefly explain what we've done. We have been in an exercise the past 10 days where we are meeting with key leaders of our province and talking with them about the problems they have in the province and how we can help them. Basically, it's a lot of hour-long meetings with a lot of talking.

We were able to go into a simulated village though and perform it as we would downrange.  We had our security, we had our key leader engagement and we also had a medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) portion in the convoy as we were leaving the village. At the scene of the MEDEVAC, we had to perform our live saving skills to save lives. We did well of course and continued our mission. Well enough typing...



SGT Klazinski patrols down the road during a KLE




Lt. Stuart greets some locals




A soldier guards the local village during a KLE




SFC Steidl and Capt Anderson on the job




SSG Winkowski guards the village during a KLE




Spc Bruno in the turret




CLS is performed on a patient




Taking a patient out of an unstable house




SFC Steidl delivering the litter for the patient




PRT Zabul work together to accomplish the mission successfully




Cpl Bregel and Spc Dolan carry the patient out of the house

 Well folks, this pretty much concludes my post for today. As you can see we are now actively wearing our new multicam uniforms. They look pretty sick I think. It's nice to have some photos where our uniform matches our protective gear since we've been mismatching this whole time. BUT, there is good reasoning for that. Thanks for reading and make sure you follow this blog to get updates. I might be posting some stuff while I'm on leave but it'll be more on the personal side if I do and maybe some photos with us getting ready to leave the post officially. After all, this is my blog so I can do that. Also, once I get in country I will provide you all with the link to our facebook PRT. This way you can also follow that and see what we've been up to. 3 months of training is reallllly long but we did train alot. There are many ways to say this but I believe it goes something like this....

"The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war"