Midway through the deployment we had several "New members" come into the picture and a couple of these men had some very real and immediate contributions. Two of these men were the S2, intelligence NCO, and our lead mechanic.

The S2 was responsible for keeping of hostile activity in our area. One of the most obvious thing about our S2 was that he cared very much about helping the unit as a whole survive any possible threat to our safety. very soon after he came into the picture our awarness improved greatly. He would often time stay up for hours and hours studying maps and events and as promptly as possible inform groups and individuals of current events. This particular man really did the NCO Corps justice, I was proud to call him Seargent.

The lead/only mechanic made his presence know after being with us about four days. He had asked all of us to properly maintain our vehicle and provide the paper work to support it, he gave us two days. None of us did what we were asked and at the next nightly meeting he got up and said something similar to this " I tried to be nice and cut you guys some slack and treat you with respect, that didn't work. Now not one of you will sleep tonight until I get those maintenance sheets on my desk, I am not bullshitting, get it done". This was another moment I was proud to be a Seargent. From that point on maintenance was done as per standard.

I will try to give as much tribute as posibble to the many men I served with but being a civillian now means very little time for my blog. Twelve hour days, school, city issues, family and a million little things to do. It's good to be home.