more Fort Riley pictures

driving home

on the way back to the barracks (my current home) after another long day on the range...

driving around Fort Riley

January 28th, 2008

the 26th in color

the 26th in b&w

a lucky shot

M-2 50-cal machine gun being fired shortly after the sun set...

Nighttime 50-cal machine gun qualifications

We spent all day and most of the night shooting machine guns, fortunately it wasn't too cold.

a chilly thursday morning

that's about -16 deg in Celsius!

how many Navy men does it take to fill up a humvee?

How about 5?
One to drive
One to fill'er up
Three to do nothing

PS: common sense and the Navy mix well they do not!

shooting the Mk19

a grenade launcher, an impractical weapon really as its uses are fairly limited.

back to sunny warm Kansas!

between Kansas City and Baltimore

a few pictures from my flight to Baltimore...

giving blood!

Part of the training involved administering IVs to one another. As you can tell my partner did a pretty good job inserting the IV in my arm, not such a good job blocking blood flow before inserting the plug in the IV...

night driving

We had to demonstrate our ability to drive in nighttime conditions with no lights (lights were on but on a very low setting) with night vision goggles (they definitely restricted our field of vision).

Exiting a flipped over hummer...

in video!

hummer training

This past Saturday we learned how to perform basic maintenance on a hummer, replace a tire, tow another hummer and egress from a flipped over hummer. Today we learned how to drive a hummer through mud and creeks, uphill and downhill. And tonight we will drive hummers in total darkness with night vision goggles on!

waiting to leave for Kansas

A few pictures as I waited for my flight, Terminal A at Washington Reagan National Airport is a definite throwback to the '60s, not that I was there at the time but I can imagine!

flying back to DC

After spending 2 weeks in South Florida it was time to head back to DC to catch my flight back to Kansas the next day. One thing I have learned is that the airline industry in the US will get you to your destination most times, when they do so is up to them. The schedules are mere suggestions!