Chris' Deployment Journal

Our fourth of July started at 0430 as our squad had the morning logpac run to the KRAB. Unfortunately my body clock was still set for the midnight guard duty shifts that we'd just rotated off of, so I didn't sleep at all. Later in the day, we rolled out again in especially hot weather. Rumors abound that it was hitting over 120 degrees and it sure felt like it. While almost a trite analogy, it truly felt like a sauna. I was the gunner in our Humvee and when we drove around, the 'breeze' felt like I was standing in front of a blast furnace.