Is it Lunch Yet??

This pic just says it all!

Training for house clearing of enemy terrorists. The "house" is only an outline of t-posts on the ground. We practice technique and code words before going into a dark house with blind halls and rooms.



Here I am in the dance line. I am in the middle.



This is how we start and end every day. We get instructions for the day in the morning, and the plan for the next day in the evening.




One of my soldiers in the S-1 section, SPC Minchew, gets an award for being good at this job. He is our Finance guru. He got a FL Meritorious Service Ribbon.



Here I am, with SGT Morales and 1LT Bannister. We are still clean as it is morning and we are loading up to go back out to the woods for training.



Here we are in the class for claymore mines. Next to me is PFC Horsford. She earned her Associates Degree while still in high school in Advanced Placement psychology. She is currently studying Computer Engineering on-line.



The business side of a claymore mine.

The two stakes anchor the beginning and end of the ignition wire. Directly behine the spool of wire you can just see a green thing that looks sorta like a staple gun. The is the trigger. The small blue box like thing just to the left is a test kit. You connect it to the "trigger" and look for a light to flash. Then you know everything is properly set to fire.