Another day

Sunny and hot today. Otherwise would have been a lovely day at the beach, just no ocean here, can't be outside without long sleeves and a uniform on. Big cement walls with razor wire on the top and the occasional MRAP or Uparmored HUMVEE driving around. Not too much dust today. A nice weather day. Just a little bit of busy work and some studying. At lunch we were discussing the fact that we got a lot of packages today, in WWII, Korea or Vietnam, we would be in a base, without A/C, not much mail, and no e-mail or Internet to connect with our families. Most of us would not be willing volunteers to be where we are, and many more casulties would be coming our way. War is still bad, it is just more cloaked in civility today.