Content

My unit con­ducted some train­ing ear­lier this week, though my sec­tion was only there for less than forty-eight hours. For the most part, there was a lot of down­time as were really the ones con­duct­ing the train­ing, not the ones being trained. The weather was a lot gen­tler than I expected it to be, though the added humid­ity was rather surprising.

I took some pho­tographs of the train­ing or lack thereof:

Fierce Glasses

“Fierce Glasses.” It is not really. It is more “hot sex” than “fierce.”

Aheram in Gear

“Aheram in Gear.” I look tired.

Travis and the M249 SAW

“Travis and the M249 SAW.” The squad auto­matic weapon goes, “Badda badda JAM! Badda badda JAM!”

Beneath the Helmet

“Beneath the Helmet.” Levi peeks from beneath his helmet.

Travis Chilling

“Travis Chilling.” Travis relax­ing dur­ing a lull in training.

Ernest in Black and White

“Ernest in Black and White.” Ernest lounges about.

Pounding the Stake

“Pounding the Stake.” Ryan mak­ing sure the stakes are pounded in deep.

Struggling with the Netting

“Struggling with the Netting.” Marines fix­ing a net­ting brought down by the wind.

Travis Smiling

“Travis Smiling.” Posing for pho­tographs for Mandy.

Lull in Training

“Lull in Training.” A cou­ple of Marines lis­ten­ing to another off-camera.

Makeshift Field Armory

“Makeshift Field Armory.” Someone came up with this nifty con­trap­tion to lean our weapons against.

Martin Napping

“Martin Napping.” Martin two hours before find­ing a huge sun spi­der inhab­it­ing his flak jacket.

Levi Napping

“Levi Napping.” Why stand when you can sit? Why sit when you can lie down? Why merely lie down when you can sleep?

Field Shower

“Field Shower.” Travis tak­ing a field shower.

Victor in Gear

“Victor in Gear.” Victor look­ing incredulous.

  • Print
  • PDF
  • FriendFeed
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Digg
  • Yahoo! Buzz
  • Reddit
  • Google Bookmarks
  • RSS

Comments for this entry

[…] View pho­tographs from this train­ing evo­lu­tion. Tags: cal­i­for­nia, marines, […]

CarrieJ
May 22 2009

love “Beneath the Helmet”! great shots, just wish it did not mean you were train­ing peo­ple to deploy!!

linda woods
May 22 2009

Beautiful pho­tog­ra­phy and great sto­ry­telling (both with and with­out words).

aheram
May 22 2009

Yes! “Beneath the Helmet” is a favorite of mine as well.

This train­ing is actu­ally not deployment-related, though it does help.

aheram
May 22 2009

Thank you so much, Linda!

Questions, suggestions, or comments?

Please be polite. Speech is free, but my website is moderated.

You can use these HTML tags: STRONG, A, BLOCKQUOTE, CODE

Please leave these two fields as-is:
blog comments powered by Disqus