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For most of the month of July, I will be conducting training with my unit. It is going to be miserable, hot, and exhausting. I am not looking forward to it at all. Ever had to lug around a flak jacket with SAPI plates around? It is not fun, especially in 120 degrees heat.
I got word from Benjamin that him and a couple of other guys I served with in Iraq are heading to Nevada to spend the Memorial Day weekend drinking, partying, and hitting on drunk girls. The destination was Lake Lahontan and we were not going to pass up this opportunity to spend some time together. Of the four of us, I was the only one still serving in the Marine Corps. Michael, Jesse, and Benjamin have been out for almost a year now, with Benjamin enjoying his new career in the Army.
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 had been extremely busy doing other things besides doing photography. I have been taking photographs, just not doing anything to them. I had a lot of things, obligations of sorts: there were the military intelligence classes I was taking, my solo exhibition, selling art, and my unit’s preparations for our upcoming deployment to Afghanistan (which may or may not happen; no one knows). I am usually so exhausted by the end of the day, I am not interested in doing anything creative.
The training tempo for the past three weeks has slowed down quite a bit. So much so that I was able to find time to build this website from scratch on a different blogging platform than what I am used to. Now that it is done, I can do photography now.
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