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"What a weekend!

I got a call at work on thursday afternoon instructing me to form the unit on Saturday at 0500, and get ready to move down to the lower keys, rolling out the gate not later than 0900, to support civil authorities in the wake of Hurricane Dennis.

I spent Friday at the unit with some of my key leaders, figuring out the logistical requirements of the move, when I got the word to push the next day's formation back to 1000 hours, and be ready to move at noon. I made a command decision to form the unit at 0800 rather than 1000, though, because we had just received a bunch of new vehicles back from languishing at Fort Stewart and Camp Blanding for more than a year, and it would take us some time to fuel them and pull a full maintenance inspection. With no external recovery assets between here and the Keys, I couldn't afford to take a dud vehicle. And between receiving the mission and conducting troop leading procedures, issuing weapons, dispatching and pulling maintenance on vehicles, and installing radios, it would just take some time to pull out the gate.'
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