A few days ago we convoyed
up to what is to be the Super Bowl of our missions. Whitehouse, as
the Patrol Base is named, is where we are to build two HLZ's from
scratch. Moving even further north has seemed to up the potential
for enemy contact. We are up with 3rd reconnaissance
battalion and 1st battalion, 6th Marine
regiment, so we are in the area of the frontlines, if you can even
call them that in today's unconventional warfare.
Building a new
camp again each time we move is somewhat of a pain. Packing things
up just to unpack them again and rebuilding everything is annoying,
but everyone works together and in no time our camp has been set up.
Day two and our engineers went quickly to work to create all the
needed amenities. They built two of our very own wooden thrones to
sit on and fill wag-bags, complete with blanket covered hesco fences
surrounding them for privacy. Two PVC pipes were dug into the
ground, protruding a few feet for our urinary purposes, aptly named,
“piss tubes,” and a couple other Marines, including the Doc built
a pullup bar for our physical fitness purposes. Day three will bring
a resupply convoy with many necessary items, the most important of
which will be my cigar resupply.
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