The Marine Memoirs - Day 020

Day 20
2009-5-15

Still no hot water! Anyway, today was going smoothly until I was found at the internet center by a couple of Marines; who informed me that a heavy was looking for me. I had to cut my internet session short, but already had plans of journeying back later on tonight, to continue surfing the World Wide Web. The only problem is the internet facilities are now three miles away, which totally hinders my plans. Six miles total and required periodic accountability checks are certainly a hindrance. Someone misplaced or stole two cameras from Transport Company today, and they were all forced to dump their bags and pockets in preparation of a full search and possible recovery investigation. I guess our command trusts us enough… because we’ve just been excluded from the investigation completely. They just switched up the squads again, which is an incredibly bad idea when you’re in a combat zone... and just when we thought things were beginning to improve too. We ate at the British chow hall and gawked at the abundance of beautiful women. The food was actually pretty good, and I think their bottled water is a lot better than ours. We utilized the internet facilities, and took full advantage of the infinite time limit. I had some problems signing on to some websites, but later solved that problem by computer hopping. A lot of Marines get involved with each other, and it usually winds up being more of a hassle than anything else. I haven’t found many Marines in my soon to be eight years all that attractive, or suitable for a relationship. A lot of them smoke, or participate in activities of which I don’t personally find attractive. I’ll elaborate more in tomorrow’s entry on what my personal opinion is on a great majority of female Marines.

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