We're Back Home (w/ pics)

[hawaiian_msp]

well me and joy (my wife for those who dont know) just flew in today from our military training. here are a few pics to let you know what we were up to... keep in mind the days easily got into the 100's and it got as cold as high 40's... (for those of you laughing, thats pretty hot/cold compared to our hawaii weather)

Our Training = medical iraq simulation for our anticipated deployment (usa)


me driving the hummer ambulance...

me in the bed of a 5 ton...

our convoy (w/ planted simulation ied's and insurgents)

chillin in the hummer

me again

the wife driving her hummer...

the wife driving the 5 ton... and you think your turbo is big lol you should see the kit on this bad boy!!

my OP-4 mission, simulate an iraqi and attack the compound...

2nd OP-4 mission, attack the watch tower (lol2)

3rd OP-4 mission, without weapons give the ACP (access control point or main gate) some s*** (lol)

OP-4 crew

the wife

me and the wife on break while setting up our CSH (combat support hospital)

(the wife during her OP-4 mission)

our midnight

my platoon..

the wifes platoon

our AO, CSH, hospital, workplace or whatever you wanna call it... we set that whole s*** up from scratch and its fully furnished too (lol2)

peace!! -mike

 

[L8R]

nice pics mike! i love the taliban pictures the most ha
why is it only joy is smiling in the pictures...? lol

crazy weather btw. hawaii has just been raining/sunny/muggy, but what's new? hehe

glad to have you back,
peace

 

[hoindawall]

wow very cool

 

[anarchistchiken]

Where were you? With temperature like that it was a desert I'm guessing, but where? California?

 

[hawaiian_msp]

Where were you? With temperature like that it was a desert I'm guessing, but where? California?

you are correct (thumb)

 

[anarchistchiken]

Fort Irwin? Or Camp Pendleton?

 

[hawaiian_msp]

Fort Irwin? Or Camp Pendleton?

camp parks, n-cal... its a training site only...

 

[anarchistchiken]

Gotcha.

 

[31R]

Ah ha! I knew those buildings looked familiar! My unit is at camp parks! I just got back from Iraq! So how was the training?

 

[hawaiian_msp]

Ah ha! I knew those buildings looked familiar! My unit is at camp parks! I just got back from Iraq! So how was the training?

it was awesome! I am gonna enforce it at my unit that everyone should go. I feel it is the best way to prepare you for the real deal cause pretty much every instructor either has combat experience or has already been to theatre and back... and all of the training is very realistic. (ie: we get mortared, gassed, ambushed, etc) s***, they even play the iraq prayer over a PA system 5 time a day just to make it even that more realistic...

 

[31R]

was it the 91st that trained you guys? They are active on that post and do alot of the training. They trained my unit down in Dona Ana New Mexico near White Sands. Its good stuff.

 

[BeNegative]

kew, kew...hehe taliban pix hehe...

 

[808pro]

wow man those are some nice pics.

 

[mokeOne]

ahaha, the OP-4 pics kill. the training sounds crazy, but good that they make it as real as can be.

 

[daedalus]

nice pics, pretty cool training from the sounds of it.

Do you have to have like a "no contact" policy with your wife there (kissing and s***)? It just seems kinda weird to be going through training and oppps, there goes your wife with a M16...

Props to you on defending our country, and making me want to fly to hawaii to steal your rims!!!

 

[Protege52003]

nice pics.....

 

[ssmp5]

Damn Mike!! I hope that is as far as you 2 have to go. Cool pics!!

 

[GHOSTWHISPER]

i wanna play

 

[Maz94Protege]

Pretty cool man, my Training for my Rate was out in Northern Cali, pics kinda looked familiar. Straight up. I might as well be deployed . im always on patrol here in the carribean. But im Coast Guard. (usa)

Looks like alot of fun though! And you have your wife with you, mine has to stay back on land