HI guys.
Home again for another weekend which is very nice when you have been away for a couple of months. Lots going on in my world these days. Still battling the broken leg but managing to carry on with the training without and major hiccups and , more importantly, without further injury to the leg.
Doing a lot of work over the past two weeks with our force protection element and spending a lot of time on the ranges and firing a lot of ammunition in training. The days prove to be long and there is typically a meeting of some sort in the evening after work is finally done. Next week we begin the excercise in which we will practice all the skills we have in our respective toolboxes to date. It will be quite long and intense and take place at various locations throughout the province. It will mean long days and longer nights and will be excellent preparation for our time overseas. We will have another more intense excercise in the future (which will last about 6 weeks) , but that is not until after the Christmas holidays.
Thanks again to all of you who have taken the time to write to me over the past 3 months. It has gone a long way to keeping up personal moral, especially when I was first injured. I apologize again for the delay in my responses. It is very difficult to reply when you have no access to the internet ( and that is the situation I am in now). I have been trying to keep on top of this blog for you and think I think I have done a not half bad job for an old computer illiterate guy (patting myself on the back at this point). Things will get more complicated as we move along and time becomes short through the exercises, but I will continue to do my best to keep you informed.
I hope that you all continue to enjoy the school year as it unfolds before you. Christmas is just around the corner and before you know it, you will be into the Twelve Days of Christmas and all the activity that goes along with it. Have a great time and enjoy yourselves.
Work hard, have fun, take a risk and make a difference.
Mr D
