Seth is back on patrol tomorrow after spending a week in the tower. I asked him which he preferred and he said that he would pick patrol! Towers are twelve hours of monotony. He said that at least the patrols involve moving around and seeing some interesting things. He did relate that he was doing an OP/LP exercise the other week. That's Observing Post/Listening Post to those of us not in tune with the military lingo. OP/LP involves sitting in the gun turret of the humvee at night with your night vision goggles watching a village for suspicious activity. As he sat there turning from side to side with his gun watching a small village in the middle of nowhere Afghanistan he had plenty of opportunity to ponder the question: "What in the world was I thinking when I joined the National Guard?"
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