The Range

I've been procrastinating when it comes to making another post. It seems the internet here isn't too fond of you trying to upload pictures. Uploading can take anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour just to get a few pictures up, depending on how many people are on, and how many times it wants to turn you down.

That being said, here are a few pictures from our trip to the range here in Kuwait. We learned quite a bit about about our weapons, and we also did convoy training. We did all of our training in the mornings and into the afternoons, starting out with a wake-up at 3:00AM. Adding insult to injury, the temperatures during the day easily exceeded 120 degrees, with winds over 20mph blowing constantly. This turned the range area, and to a greater extent, most of Kuwait, into a huge sandblaster.

Below are a series of pictures showing what the range facilities were like for us.

For the three nights we were there, this was our sleeping arrangement. The Hilton, it was not, but it was air conditioned and that was all that mattered at the end of the day for us.



Just a picture from outside of a tent. The area around us looks mostly like this, but more barren if you can believe it.



Convoy training



This is Wasson, A.K.A. the "Combat Wombat." He was our driver for the convoy training.

Getting geared up and ready to roll out on our convoy training mission

That's not a comprehensive group of pictures, but it's the best I was able to upload in any reasonable amount of time. I hope to have another one up again within a week. We finally start doing missions soon, so there should be interesting pictures from all over. Until then . . .