von Bendy | 9. April 2008 | Army
I know i didn’t write a lot lately. The reason is that there’s simply nothing happening here. The schedule looks exactly the same every day. Nothing spectacular at all. Only highlight was the parcel i got from my girlfriend. And knowing that there might be...
von Bendy | 7. April 2008 | Army
The daily schedule is more or less settled in now. Our biological clocks are adjusted to the time shift. Our day looks something like this: 17:00 wake up 17:30 move to Bern 18:00 breakfast 19:00 take over command post 19:15 briefing 19:30 bring out first team 22:00...
von Bendy | 6. April 2008 | Army
It is April, and its snowing! WTF?!?!
von Bendy | 6. April 2008 | Army
I just found out that i wasnt the only one that overslept yesterday. 3 other guys slept until about 1pm :-). Luckily the standby-driver brought them home
von Bendy | 5. April 2008 | Army
Sleeping is a good thing, especially when you’ve done your last tour and got about 3.5 hours until you go back to the encampment. Bad thing is when no-one wakes you up. But as i had the car-keys they wouldn’t have left without me :-). I was only a few...
von Bendy | 5. April 2008 | Army
Working during the night has certain advantages. You get through the city with no trouble and you are left in peace. Downsides are that the radio program repeats every 2 to 3 hours and that you get bored between the tours. Still the worst thing is the jet lag. OK,...
von Bendy | 3. April 2008 | Army
It seems that blogging via my mobile phone worked quite good. Only downside is, that the number of characters is capped. I don’t know exactly, but I think it’s a problem of my mobile phone and not WordPress. So don’t wonder if my posts are kept...
von Bendy | 2. April 2008 | Army
Yesterday was a ‚busy‘ day. My main job was delivering food and shuttling people around. OK, I had to get up 1 hour earlier than the others to get breakfast (which took approx. 1/2 hour per way), but it also got me around the training :-). This morning we...
von Bendy | 31. März 2008 | Army
The first day is almost over. The last taxi-job is almost done. We’ve brought the food containers back to the kitchen and fixed the pickup for breakfast and Zwipf. 6.30 am. And its a 30min drive one way. I hope that our lieutenant honours it somehow that we get...
von Bendy | 31. März 2008 | Army
This years WK started as i expected. We arrived at the train-station, and waited. No one to pick us up. About am hour later a bus turned up. After a 10 minute ride we arrived at our destination. We got our material (sleeping-bag, spare uniforms, etc) and ate...
