16th December

Went out this morning at 0600 to do a route clearance, and god the cold was unreal, people think that Afghanistan is a 40’c sweat box all year round, they are so wrong, I was gibbering holding that Valum. Went to spot 11 M1U, jumped on the back of a Mastiff and came back to Qudrat, Easy patrol, good to be at the front again getting more used to it now.

‘CONTACT’, 2030, terry taking pop shots at the CP from M1P, we couldn’t PID his firing position so J.. called in 105 lume round and lit up the whole AO. Apart from that things have taken a turn and are slowing right down now, The Turp said that the Taliban move north for the winter, so we were getting contacted as they were moving up into the desert, so who knows it might turn into a quiet tour, most the other checkpoints haven’t even fired a single round yet! Think terry is just re-grouping for the spring offensive in March so looking forward to that. Going to make sure that I give Jen a call on the 18th and see how her scan went. Anyway I’m off to bed now, patrol into M1T tomorrow so hopefully something will happen so that we can get some rounds down.