...cause I have a few pics of it.


So I walk past this stuff about 30 times a day. Ok, I'm exaggerating, but it's safe to say that I see it a lot. The pic of me with the D9 was taken in the garage on the left, but the tractor in this pic is not the same tractor from the other pic. Anyhow, everything in the picture is really big. This picture does very little to convey that.


This is a garage from the main "road" of the my section of the base. The APC's that I am learning all about are in the distance on the left. Everything in this section of my base is just huge garages with tons of tanks and tractors in them. There's no forgettin you're in the army here!


So when we were learning about all the parts of the engine, they would have us go into the garage and take apart whatever it was we learned about so we could play with it and see how everything works. Obviously, they didn't want us ruining healthy APC's, so they have a bunch of old engines that just sit on blocks to be played with by idiots like me. The section of the cooling system that contains the thermostat is laying on the top left section of the engine (and I think I'm actually the one who took it off and never bothered putting it back on 2 weeks ago...and I'm being totally serious). Anyhow, I know way more about this engine than I ever dreamed I would know about any engine.


This is my sergeant. He saw me with the camera and quickly knew that he had to represent for the APC, yo. He has an acronym for "armored personnel carrier" written on his hand in hebrew. He gets mad props for this pic.


I seem to always post at least one pic from a train, so here you go. This was the train today (a tuesday) as I came home. Nice and empty. These are the "old style" of trains in israel. They are actually still really nice, just older than all the others. I love trains in israel (when I have a place to sit, that is).

I'll give a bigger update of what is actually going on with me when I get home for the weekend. I have to wake up tomorrow and head right back to my base though, so no time to get too deep right now.