Chris' Deployment Journal

Movies are one key to our sanity. While there are certainly days when we're running non-stop on missions and whatnot, there are other days where we just sit, and wait. We workout, we joke around, we read books, we email and chat, and we watch movies, LOTS of movies.

The other day we were off and we watched all three Lord of the Rings movies – NINE HOURS of movie viewing! I thought we might start getting butt sores from sitting so long. During training in Texas, some days were so slow that these guys would watch up to five movies a day. Sad, but true.

When someone gets new movies in, he immediately announces it to the rest of the squad. And when one of those flicks hasn't been seen much, it quickly becomes the 'hot movie' of the moment. An example: Sally recently sent me four movies, but most of the guys had already seen three of them. The fourth one though, 'Super Size Me,' they hadn't seen. It was snatched out of my hand faster than you could say 'Happy Meal' and immediately went from Smith, to Wilson, to Tozer, to Ohlensehlen, to who-knows-who-else, skipping from laptop-to-laptop in a new movie frenzy. (Funnier still, I still haven't actually watched it myself yet, but I will.)