Okay, so we've only been over here since last Thursday, and it's Monday evening. That's not nearly enough time to be as exhausted and frustrated as I am right now.
I was told Friday morning that I would have to run the Battalion machine gun range Sunday and Monday, and that we'd basically be testing all of the weapons to make sure that they weren't damaged in shipping. No worry about trying to qualify anyone, so it should have been relatively painless except that it ended up a nightmare.
To begin with, we're not on computer networks with email and whatnot here, so I received chicken scratch lists from every one of companies for who was supposed to be going to the range. I had to enter all of it by hand into my computer in order to turn in all the necessary paperwork. That took hours by the time everything was rounded up and I finally got it from the other companies. Then on Sunday morning, we get all the way out to the range an hour late because my NCOIC took a wrong turn and wouldn't listen to me on where to turn because he said his GPS told him I was giving him the wrong directions. Of course, every hour later in the morning here is critical because the temperature starts rising dramatically as soon as the sun comes up. So now worrries, we should still be finished by 0800 or so, except that when I give one of the NCOs the breakdown for the ammo, she goes to the back of the truck and then comes back and tells me there's no ammo. This despite the fact that I looked my NCOIC (not one of my MPs) in the face and asked him if he had picked up the ammo the night before. So he ended up having to go back to the Camp to get ammo, and it was over 3.5 hours before he got back out with ammo.
Of course when I got back, I am now the butt of the biggest joke in the Battalion... "hey CPT Ritchey, don't you know it takes ammo to run a range?" The range went much more smoothly this morning and we were done firing by 0715 instead of starting firing around 1030 like we did yesterday. So everyone was all like, "see how much easier it is when you have ammo?" Something tells me I'm not going to hear the end of this anytime soon.
In the course of Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, I had about a grand total of 4.5 hours of sleep and about 4 meals. Needless to say I'm not really feeling the best right now, but I did get a nap finally this afternoon and even got to eat dinner (meal #1 for the day).
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