The day has arrived.....

Well the day has finally come, I'm all dressed in my desert combats and ready to deploy! As usual I am shattered after a very restful nights sleep which is not a great issue as it means I will hopefully sleep on the plane. That is a good thing, trust me on that one, the travelling is THE worst thing about going away. I wish the boffins at the new inventions for the military secret bunker would invent a teleporter. It would save 2 days of pain, lol.

So how am I feeling today? Well, quite tired, grumpy, a little apprehensive, impatient and a little sad. Its always the same emotions when I go away, I suppose its understandable really. I just want to get there, get on with the job and come home.

I ended up sharing a room with one of the lads who has never deployed before so I have been showing him the ropes and taking him under my wing. That has been a little bit of a distraction which is good.

I'm waiting to hear about a helicopter that has crashed in the north sea as one of my friends who has recently left the military was possibly flying. At the minute there are 8 dead and 8 missing, presumed dead. On the face of it, it looks like a catostrophic failure of some sort. A mayday was issued but as yet no further details have came out. Crashing in the sea is definitely NOT on my prefer ways to crash list.