Woke Up Quick

"Hey folks.

How's it going out in the real world? Things are slow here, it seems like our action weeks seem to go in cycles, a few weeks of non stop action then a few weeks of bone crushing boredom. I appreciate the down time and the slower mission pace after we get into a few fights, but after a while I just start thinking "c'mon Taliban, stop talking about fighting us and actually start fighting us". But who knows, we may get rocked tonight and I'll be eating my words. The weather here is getting really really hot, which means it's getting really really dusty around here. Next time we have a decent dust storm I'll try and get a picture of it, but they've been pretty rare. The downside of the dust is that the insurgents can see our convoys comming a mile away, I've seen just one motorcycle make a dust cloud that I could see from a few miles away, I don't even know what one of our larger convoys seems to look like. Also it means that as long as I'm up in the turret I'm not going to be bringing my camera out on missions, I did that once and now I have to keep my flash taped down on my trusty Nikon D80 (a great camera btw, if anyone's interested)"
Afghani Kush