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Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Our daily schedule
Here’s our basic schedule: three days of patrols and ‘logpack’ (stands for Logistics Package, basically just an early morning or afternoon run to the big base to drop off our base’s trash, fill up fuel cans for the generators, pick up breakfast or dinner chow, and do random things like pick up the chaplains for our weekly services, grab a particular vehicle/generator part, escort a State Department person to/from their base to the big base, etc.), three days of QRF (Quick Reaction Force – just generally being dressed, even while sleeping and including boots, and ready to go) which also sometimes includes a night mission, and then three days of guard duty. Then it starts all over again.
While we have no actual days ‘off’, the schedule isn’t bad at all, since much of the duties are split up between four squads. So while a patrol day might be two patrols and two logpacks, we might only have to do one or two of any of them. Guard duty is just eight hours long, with 16 hours off. Over all, it isn’t bad at all, although occasionally you can get hammered with a bunch of stuff at once, like just finishing a long patrol, then having to do a logpack, then quickly rolling into a night mission if you’re transitioning to QRF, and perhaps having a week of being ‘duty squad’ (cleaning our latrines, taking out trash, etc.)
While we have no actual days ‘off’, the schedule isn’t bad at all, since much of the duties are split up between four squads. So while a patrol day might be two patrols and two logpacks, we might only have to do one or two of any of them. Guard duty is just eight hours long, with 16 hours off. Over all, it isn’t bad at all, although occasionally you can get hammered with a bunch of stuff at once, like just finishing a long patrol, then having to do a logpack, then quickly rolling into a night mission if you’re transitioning to QRF, and perhaps having a week of being ‘duty squad’ (cleaning our latrines, taking out trash, etc.)
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