Never before caught on camera!!!

You have no idea how much of a treat this is for you all to see. I have been here in Oki for a while now and have always wondered how they keep all the grass around the airfield cut so neatly all the time. I mean it always looks perfect yet I never see anyone cutting it. Today I was able to capture on camera what no other person has been able to before. From what I hear there are more Bigfoot sightings than what I'm about to show you. I mean this is really something. So here it is I hope that you are ready for this.



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Its a GRASS NINJA!!!!!

Just some pics from the trip

One big Plane, One little Bird

It started off as a nice sunny day in the Philippines. We loaded the plane and set off to drop some recon Marines out of the back of the plane. Everything went smooth and we got all the guys out of the plane and on the ground safely. We headed back to land and on touch down we started to smell a nasty burning smell. As it turned out we hit six little birdies and one went into the engine and exploded creating the smell.....

There is whats left of the little birdie that went into the engine.

This is a shot with the inlet guide vanes open so we could see how far it went into the engine. ( it turned out that it went all the way to the fuel nozzles and clogged a bunch of them up )

This is some of the guys talking about what we need to do to clean out of the bird guts. The picture I didn't get was of me pushed all the way into the intake to clean out what I could with rags. The intake is the hole directly under the propeller hub. The only thing sticking out was my boots. Its not a fun job.

Now its time to wash the engine out...Call in the fire truck!!!

This is Sgt Jones spraying water into the engine. It didn't do much to clean it out. Its kind of hard to clean exploded bird goo baked onto metal at almost 1000 degrees.

Ya it was a pretty eventful day.

Home away from Home

Well I am now in my barracks room!! I have actually been in the barracks room for a couple days now. Its not so bad. The room are bigger than the one in NC at least. Today I got my internet set up and my stuff delivered I had shiped over. So basically I have all my stuff but no where to put it because my roommate they put me with has every drawer filled, every bed made, and every wall locker...locked. I guess he figured that if he made the room look full they wouldn't move anyone into it while he was on leave. I can't blame him though, I'd have done the same thing lol. He gets back in a couple days so I will be able to get a wall locker and some drawers.

I didn't go to work today cause I had to wait for my stuff to show up ( ya bummer I know ). The movers are worse than the cable people. They said i have to be in the room between 8am and 6pm to recieve my shipment. I guess I should thank them for giving me the day off :). Here are some pics of my barracks room.

Waiting

Well not much has changed so far.  I'm still sitting in the JRC barracks waiting to head out to my squadron.  I would say the theme for this week has been " Hurry up and wait" .  Basically we are told we have to be at a certain place at a certain time and we better not be late.  When we get there we end up sitting around for hours till we actually get to doing what we were sent there to do in the first place.  For example we had to get to IPAC ( the administration centor for all you civilian folk ) so we could hurry and get our stuff done so we could be done by chow.   Chow came and went and Marines were still there waiting.  Most of us didn't even get back till evening chow. I on the other hand decided to take matters into my own hands and got my stuff done in a couple hours and was back snoozing in my rack in no time.  

At the current moment I am waiting for the bus to get back so I can get down to my base and check into my barracks.  When i do I will snap some pics and show you the sweet living conditions that the single barracks marines live in.