The plane over

View from the luggage hold. No they didn't make me ride under there, I was helping to unload. That soldier standing up on the left is my "battle buddy" Mackenzie. He is one of four in my squad. Good kid. The other day at the M16 range, a training sergeant was telling us all how much he loves fishing on the West Coast. He said that he especially likes fishing on the McKenzie River because he always catches so many. "It's like a giant meat bucket," he said. From that day on I've been calling Private Mackenzie "Meat Bucket." Now everyone calls him that, it's his official nickname. He's pretty pissed at me about it. He hoped for a more menacing nickname, but Meat Bucket it is. Sorry Mac.