The top of the 9th

Not really a baseball guy, but this title still seemed appropriate. Starting to close things out here in Hohenfels but still plenty of game to play. What have I been doing for the last month? Imagine a deployment to Afghanistan, stuff it into one month in the area the size of a medium sized national park, and its in the middle of Bavaria... make sense? Basically, just a mock excercise in preparation for Afghanistan... and a very well thought out excercise. It is well scripted and thought out, still some little things here and there you catch, but overall, an awesome tool to build our processes, SOPs, etc.

I don't think I have ever learned and absorbed so much knowledge in my life... true statement. I think I may have learned more in these 2 months in the field than I have in any of my MS (military science) classes at West point, more than possibly even all my history classes combined (I wasn't much of a student at times). The way I look at the world has possibly changed, and I am interested to see how much I have changed my perceptons once I go back home in the winter time.

So, what exactly am I talking about? Maybe it isn't quite raw knowledge, but mainly the way I frame problems, the way I attack problems, and the way to properly digest a problem. If I thought the way I do now, I think school would have been so much easier.... pretty sad when I think about it. Not only easier, but alot more interesting. The relevancy of what I am learning right now is there- I am going to Afghanistan, so I must do all I can to prepare the best I can so the plans we make as a staff is the best plan possible in order to ensure that soldiers come back home alive.

Yea, thats all I got right now. Payce