Here we have some privates. They somehow got in trouble and now have to pick up trash outside of the base. I've seen some of them pulling grass from sidewalks and other tedous and crappy jobs. Life as a private must really suck. There always told what to do and live in the worst place and get paid to much either. In Korea the only thing to do it seems like on the weekend is go out and party. Even though the drinking age in Korea is 19(and they have a weird age calculation type deal where they count your time in the womb as one year so your born at one) they still can't drink until there 21. That must really suck because they have alcohol everywhere here espcially in the px. I don't understand a private is capable of getting security clearances, drive 6 million dollar tanks, and deploy to countries and be the spearhead of our national polciies but they can't drink responsibly.Anyway i talk to plenty privates because there everywhere and there all pretty nice and are knowledgable about Korea because some of them have been here for a lot of months. A lot of them are working on their bachelors here so i thought that was pretty cool. A surprising number of enlisted folk have college degrees.
Anyway here is my usual breakfast. Im always starved after pt and i go up to the dfac and eat this much food. Its pretty good and it is free so im eating there regardless.
Heres a picture of the motorpool. Theres just a bunch of Bradleys here. Bradleys like a tank but i think technically its called a fighting vehicle. Its meant to support infantry and it doesn't have like a big cannon it just has a machine gun chain gun to shoot. There all old but right now there getting new ones so thats pretty cool. Its real hot inside of them though and it wouldn't be a good place to go if your claustrophobic.
Anyway yesterday I got to go the top of this hill in the city. We took some hummvess up and it was a rough ride because we were going up the whole time and the path up is unpaved. Also the road was kinda slim so there were times id look out of the window and there'd be a cliff. But it was fun going up. So we got up there and it was a really nice view. You could see the whole city (dongducheon) basically.
Anyway what we did up there was get up with a few air force guys and call in some air strikes on the city. No we didn't really fire anything it was practice of course. But i guess what we were supposed to get out of it was how to use distinctive features in the area to bomb so north korean guys if they attacked.
It was cool we had radios and crap and the planes came in and looked like they were gonna attack and stuff. I got a video of the airplanes. I don't know if the videos gonna work on this website but i have it on my computer if your dying to see it.
Anyway that was cool. And what else. O i still haven't gotten my housing done stuff because of the beaucracy. I hate it, this colonel in charge of the program said if we had any troubles to go to so im thinking about hopping the chain of command just to see some heads roll but i mean its not to bad and i think were getting close to done. the bureaucracy sucks but it sucks when the people speak very little English too. yuck. But i mean were im living is quality like i said before but im supposed to be in a better place and i just really wanna get unpacked and crap. I haven't been unpacked unpacked in like 2 months so its a little frustrating. But at least i get free food to comfort me.
Last night i got a prepaid phone for like 10 bucks. I got like 400 minutes and 45 texts to. I got a calling card too for like 10 for 300 minutes to the us. Im loving these deals. Also there are stores where you can get 4 movies for 10 bucks... and there bootleg movies so i think im gonna watch harry potter soon ha.
Today we got to meet this brigadier general. That was alright. The food was good. But you know we kinda got the same old advice.
O and today i went out to go shopping again. Got a new pair of shoes for 45. There probaby fake but they certainly don't look fake. I specificaly got shoes that didn't look fake but some of them were just so fake it was funny. Then i went to some of the tailors and looked around. I found this one tailor whose been doing it for 32 years and hes making me a 3 piece suit. Its gonna be 140 but what this would cost in the states is probably like 5 or 600. I looked at all the suits he had around and they were all quality and really well stictched. I got a regular black one. I took lauras advice even though the pin stripes looked very smooth. The crazy thing is this is just a small place to shop. Theres a place in seoul thats supposed to be like a heaven for shopping so im excited to go out there. Hopefully i have room in my bags to carry it all back. I might have to ditch my military gear hahah
Anyway i have no idea what im doing this weekend but i hope it involves shopping and drinking responsibly
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