Can you belive it?

After a 9 hour flight to a refueling location, and a 5 hour flight in country I have made it. 'Boots on the ground' or so they say.

Day 1 was exciting. Unloading and loading our luggage. Just to give you an idea of how much, 5 bags per person, 251 people. Hot damn. When we arrived at the FOB we had to unload them again, just 1 bag per person, and unload the rest of them into a conex. Then came breakfast. They made 1o omlets, special order in about 3 minutes. Holy shit! Cross and I decided to look for the computer lab, obviously we found it, and then decided to leave.

Funny thing happened on the way back to our tent. We got lost. Yes, we were lost in the desert. We were wandering around for about 2 hours before we finally found where we needed to go. Man.

Let me tell you about the scenery and the weather. It is so dusty here it practically blocks out the sun. Makes the sky look as though it's cloudy with a light grey to brown clouds. And it's hot, yea but not over-whelmingly. There's wind that constantly blows and to give you an example its 86 degrees at midnight. But so far i am not doing too bad. There is nothing here to look at except sand, rocks, and dirt. No hills, no trees, no bushes, just sand as far as the eye can see. And not the rolling sand dunes you would expect like in the Sahara, just flat rocky sandy sand. There is a pretty cool souvigner shop here that I plan on buying stuff and bringing back home for me and gifts for those of you who asked. Am I a tourist or a soldier? Perhaps a little of both?