13th January

As it was last night the sharpshooter had returned and stuck a few rounds over the CP from W6B, just to the south east of us there is a high thick reed line on the other side of the wadi, so today we patrolled out over there, and fuck you we will burn that shit to the ground.

We got out there and tried to use Phos, to burn the shit down, but 4 grenades later it wasn’t working, so we are going to have to come back at a later date with some fuel and burn the fucker down, and expose or deny that firing point. When we came back what a treat we had, two chefs have turned up with fresh food for a few days, so no ration packs fresh scoff, and fuck me it was amazing! No 24 hour rat packs for a few days, result. As I was speaking to one of the chefs turns out he comes from Canvey Island! Small world two blokes from the same area, in a shit compound in the middle of Afghanistan. We started talking about home and about all the people we know etc, and turned out we know quite a few of the same people (by that I mean girls!).