Hauling To Charleston, SC

After launching 5 aircraft out of Charlesten this morning, the score card for the South Carolina mission is final--123 flight hours, 160 passangers, 23,919 pounds of cargo and 12,884 gallons of jet fuel. Based on how smooth things went, you would assume our unit had been flying togther for years. I ended up flying a two-day trip with Fred, one my instructors from the FWAATS. The first night, we arrived early enough to have a nice dinner at the Southend Brewery in downtown Charleston. Another highlight was getting a close up look at the Liberty Belle, which is a restored WWII era B-17 Bomber that was there for a weekend performance.

It is now Friday night, the rain has set in and we are sitting around in our ballistic vests waiting for a bus to take us out to field training for the next 9 days--time to play Army--tents, Meals Ready To Eat (MRE's), convoy operations, weapons qualification, practice bleeding during medical training...little sleep due to mortars and lots of mud. With any luck, we will pick up some flying missions.