Low Ops Day

I thought that it would be a good idea to have a low ops day for a change. "Low ops" is a kind of military slang expression, which means that we would not be doing, or at least not be planning to do such an awful lot during a given time period. That was the plan, but today turned out to be quite something else than "low ops", even if it would be unfair to call today an "ops" day either - it was somewhere in between. In the morning DOWA (department of women's affairs) called and wanted to meet me. They wanted to plan the details of the international women's day celebrations. They also proposed a project to plant trees on land owned by women. Consequently, I had to write a report on that meeting. In the afternoon we had some training for foot patrols and even had a short foot patrol outside. Upon returning from that training patrol, the PO's second in command, I, accidentally discharged his sidearm into the unloading barrel. Too bad, but these things happen. In a case like this it is standard procedure to start a criminal investigation, which we did. During the evening brief my phone rang three times. It took me more than 30 minutes before I was able to get other business out of the way and call back. Not exactly my idea of low ops.