Well, this is what happens when you're gone for over a month. One little deployment and your schedule gets all messed up. Not that it was perfect before I left, but I definitely need to work on getting something regular. Perhaps regular posts on certain days of the week.
It was a short deployment. Just one month at the Joint Readiness Training Center (aka JRTC) in warm, sunny Fort Polk, Louisiana. Coming from Ft. Drum at the end of February, this place was heaven. Reminded me of what I'd been missing lately.
It was a good training schedule. It gave me a good opportunity to practice for "real" using the skills I'd learned in a field environment. I have a pretty good sense of what I'll be doing once I head overseas. Of course because they have such a short period to train with here, they pack it full -- each day in "the box" is roughly equivalent to a week or more (from recent events I'd say considerably more now) of real-time.
I did get the chance to get some more reading done, although not as much as I was hoping. 12 hour shifts keep you pretty busy and before and after the events, there was lots of packing, unpacking and additional training to handle. Still, I may try and get some little reviews done soon. I've started reading these old pulp reprints by certain authors and I've got to say that they are a pretty interesting change from a lot of what's being published currently.
All the same, I do plan on doing some other reviews sooner or later as well -- dvds, etc. We'll see.
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