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Really looking forward to the family time!  Tents are up, computers in place and network is...almost ready but not really.  I have to send a special thanks to the guys that volunteered to stay and allow the rest of us to come home for Thanksgiving. I person all think we owe them something! Just a couple of days home and the rough BS of setting up the TOC and I really don't want to go back, but all good things must come to an end. Until then I'm enjoying it!!

Today's activity involve putting up smaller tents. With high tension between everyone with an opinion for how to put these tents up it made for a difficult task. Our group of about 5 people branched off and started with our tent while the remaining 15 started on another.  After our tent was standing we look over at the other team and it also is standing however there are parts missing and there is a descution of how it needed to turn. Laughing a little to ourselves we drive on and move to the next part of the set up and again after finalizing this portion we check on the others. They have brought their tent down and put on the missing pieces and have it back up but are still discussing the position.  We finalize our tent and are watching and get asked to quit sitting around and come help. A comment from us that they had more than enough people was not accepted with kind looks. One of our teammates has gone over, looked at the status and gave an opinion of the next course of ac...

 TThe past four days have been a prime example of military interactions.  It all started with a trip to FT Hood. The trip down here wasn't as bad as expected. They next day however was textbook idiocracy. It all started with the wrong people giving direction on how to put the tent up. After a couple of hours and getting nowhere fast the frustration of the dictators was reaching a high. At this point was a prime time for a mutiny. We were successful at this point and sent the A Team off to lunch, and after about 30 minutes the tent was up. About another 15 minutes and someone from the A Team was back from lunch. I asked if they wanted to do something they could stretch the floor out to be put in place and/or put up the remaining equipment that was laid out to dry.  After our driver successfully travelled across the entire installation in search for food we found one. At this point 15 minutes have past. We quickly evacuated the vans and headed in to grab a bite to eat. We j...

Looks like the weather has decided it's winter, riding may be over this year.