Heart of Darkness

"Another day. All the same really; hot in the day, cold at night. It's like Groundhog's Day here; wake up, eat chow, go up north, sleep, eat chow, go back up south...etc. It's started to rain recently; there's a thunderstorm outside right now and I am running on battery power because the generator is down. Giant steel boxes full of electric parts don't do well with lightning. I am “off” today; 16 hours in a guard tower, guarding nothing. Empty connex's and an LMTV in a pit surrounded by hesco barriers and razor wire. We were recently delighted to learn that we are now able to go back out with less than the required 8 hours of sleep! Since an entire troop has been pulled from the line to train the new guys, our names are now highlighted in red on the trip ticket, enabling us to be manifested for missions with 6 hours of sleep, 4 hours of sleep or even no sleep. I'm sure any accidents that come of this will be blamed on soldiers playing too many video games at the USO or not having enough endurance because we don't do PT everyday, not the fact that we've been driving on the same boring roads for 30 hours without any sleep. At least when I nod off and flip my truck into a ditch, I'll have my PT belt on over my vest so my corpse can be found."
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