It seems as if this training will never end. I arrived at Camp Atterbury, IN the day after Thanksgiving and the weeks have painfully crawled by. This is by far the dumbest mobilization training EVER. The strategy in Afghanistan is counterinsurgency, yet I feel like we are being trained to be insurgents ourselves. According to Camp Atterbury, every Afghan is a threat, every rock, bicycle, pregnant woman and wheel barrel is an IED (improvised explosive device), and every car on post will kick up dirt in my eyes then proceed to run me over, thus requiring me to wear a reflective belt and protective eye wear at all times. Some say rather than PRT standing for Provincial Reconstruction Team, it means Prevention of Real Training. This place is an absolute joke. Good news is, we leave for Afghanistan in 2 weeks. I never thought I would be so excited to be going to a war zone; anywhere but here.
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