It was noticeably cooler today. In fact, the temperature was so low that I didn't sweat under my body armour during our morning patrol. I spent the rest of the day doing administrative duties: Meeting people visiting the PO, reading scores of reports, writing a few myself, and takin care of the local employees paperwork. Some reinforcements arrived today (Mobile Observation Team Bravo and Joint Tactical Air Control) to replace guys who are on leave from the PO, and they had to be recieved, briefed and tasked for tomorrows duties. I hadn't been so busy today if it hadn't been for yet some more last-minute changes, such as 9 people arriving instead of 3, 3 people staying until Sunday instead of today, teams choosing to do two-day patrols instead of one-day ones, new radios being installed on a different day than planned. The list goes on.
When I collected my bedlinen that I washed yesterday from the clothes line on the roof, the dust had coloured the sheets with a khaki camouflage pattern. Lesson learned - I should have used the tumble dryer in stead. It was cloudy the whole day today, so the guys of the visiting Mobile Medical Team were forced to change their daily routine of sunbathing for four hours. They actually looked happy to be doing something useful for a change, such as refilling broken sandbags and helping to clean the water tanks.
The picture shows the water drainage pipe from the washing machine. The dust gets everywhere.
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