24th December

Christmas Eve! Not at home, weird feeling. Writing this in the heat at midday, so used to snow, or rain this time of year, not sitting in the Jackal surrounded by all this equipment over Christmas, crazy feeling not being at home, first Christmas I’ve ever had away. Still every cloud and all that good stuff! No patrol today due to the festive season, see even we get a day off here now and again! Still got to stag though! We are going on a big company op into M1N soon we found out today at a brief, so hopefully that will be better than the shit op we did into M1T on the 9th.

Man, we had bacon rolls today with bread, and oh my god it was amazing, a taste explosion after ration packs for the last month and a bit, tried ringing Jen, 4 fucking time’s, the concept of a mobile phone is just lost on some people it really is. Got to speak to dad which was good had a good 25 mins on the phone to him, just makes you realize how lucky the lads are on RnR, and that I’m not spending Christmas at home, instead I get to see Christmas in on stag. I mean come on that’s just my shit luck, on stag, where else would I be!

A Lynx came in earlier and dropped off 2x, 3 Para snipers, M…. And H…. , so that was an unexpected Christmas present, hopefully they can track this sharpshooter with there, I don’t know, SniperDar! Still 2 more bloke’s for stag so sweet, and hopefully they can track where they think he would be firing from etc, good to have the knowledge here. Anyway I’m off I’m fucked, at least we’ll have the weather tomorrow!