FLX 2 complete

We finished our second week of field exercises. Fun stuff! Last week we were fortunate enough to come back nearly every day to shower. This week, not so lucky. We left early Monday morning and returned Friday evening. My level of funkiness was aweful. Everyone smelled so we didn't notice it on each other. Thank goodness. We were told initially that we would return every 72 hours to shower....nope!

A couple funny events happened this week. When the port-a-potty service finally came to clean the potties on Thursday, they discovered that someone threw a blank into the port-a-potty. Training was halted and everyone was returned to the FOB. We were yelled at by our 1SG and told that we wouldn't have pizza that night (our one privilage since showers were out of the question) and that our weekend pass "might" be revoked. Then we had to pull "shit detail" and stand in full battle rattle at the port-a-potties, search the people who were using the facilities, and then inspect the area after use. YUCK! Oh yeah, we had our pizza that night and we had a three day off post pass.....

Friday, my squad was OPFOR. Three of us were at the first objective. For the first group that came thru, my role was to be an informant that turned on the friendly forces. I took a smoke grenade (our version of an IED) and hid it on the small of my back. The friendly forces noticed that I had something and were doing really good on intructing me what to do, THEN..... I heard the infamous words "take it out and throw it". Well, I did. I took it out, pulled the pin, and then threw it just behind the group of soldiers. lol, they were upset, I just smiled.