Twitter Digest – 23 August – 29 August, 2009

Another week in Iraq, another handful of tweets to record for posterity.

• 11:03 on Saturday, August 29, 2009
  2.5 hours of flight time for 7 hours off the FOB. Temp @ Ground lvl > 50C, @ 6G = 25C. Ahhh, nice and refreshing…
• 23:30 on Friday, August 28, 2009
  Starting another 48hr Duty Cycle.  Have a 3 hour flight on hold.
• 11:50 on Friday, August 28, 2009
  Cal < 1000/day + 7 miles of Cardio = The Big Suck!
• 01:11 on Thursday, August 27, 2009
  POI 9-Line turned into evac from a JSS.  Landed in an Iraqi FOB and waited for US escorts to take me to the US compound.
• 09:48 on Tuesday, August 25, 2009
  Sitting in my little 4 man CHU on the flight line waiting for a 9-Line
• 09:28 on Sunday, August 23, 2009
  Whew!  124F at 1700, 139F was registered around 1300