The End of the Week, Kind Of

Thursday has come and gone, tomorrow promises to be pretty uneventful at the motor pool. Most of us single soldiers will be out at the lake, doing something that has yet to be made completely clear. Well, such is the way of things. The latest news from the surrounding areas is that some prisoners escaped from a prison down in Wichita Falls, TX and apparently had some plan to 'blow up' Fort Sill. (Probably putting that in here just got me on a whole lot of hot lists, but take it in context.) At any rate, how this was to be accomplished is not known, nor why, after you just broke out of prison, you'd want to go do something like that, is beyond me. Personally, I'd be more apt to head for Mexico, down a couple Coronas and call it a day.
But then again, I've spent a sum total of one night in jail, so couldn't really say. At any rate, this resulted in us standing by for quite a while, setting up the motor pool for inspection, which as far as combat is concerned, we could give a rip less. We also had to clean a great deal of weapons, mostly the MK-19 grenade launchers. They are a pain to take apart, and weigh about 150 lbs. each. Cleaning them becomes something of a chore, but a necessary one. Gunpowder leaves a carbon residue which can be a pain to clean out of small metal parts, of which a large weapon has many. I also saw something pretty interesting a couple days ago- I've heard of 'ganster grips', but prior to that day had never seen one- I thought they only went on machine guns, but I saw some on M16s as well. The gangster grip is an upright handle set at right angles to the barrel (picture a tommy gun's front grip, it's quite a bit like that). I'm thinking it would make the thing impossible to aim, as I got so used to holding the front grip in an underhand way, and aiming like that. Then again, I'm a lot better machine gunner, so who knows?
Well, I'm afraid there's not a lot more going on lately, so I'll call it a night. Time for dinner, anyway- I figure I'll do something bad, like Sonic- what the hell, I've been good all week. Hope everyone's day goes well, and enjoy the weekend! And of course, steer clear of Tenafly Viper!