View from above

Hello everyone,It's been over a week and it's still crazy over here, we have so many ground troops out and about. We had a convoy out for the last 5 days, all of there vehicles got destroyed by either being blown up (thank god while no one was in them) or shot at while traveling through. Lucky for us, no one was hurt! I know you all probably heard about the soldier they found, he was one of the 3 still missing (the ones they saw drug into the house last week). At this point he was not 100% identified but almost certain who he is. It's very sad, you talk to these people everyday in passing from point A to B, then one day they are gone. It feels like someone ripped your heart out. I have to admit the Marines are taking the brunt of it all, they are the ones on the ground. I support the air missions. Daily we support the ground troops from the air, we can see everything that is happening. That is our way of accounting for our troops and getting them help when in trouble. But the down side is we can see it from the air but getting the ground troops to a specific location for back-up or rescue is not so easy. Our only other option is to bomb the troubled area below and we can't do that if our people are within a certain proximity. Last week we had some outsiders on base with AK-47's, the base went on lock down while they hashed it all out. That happened about 100 ft from where I live but thankfully I was at work. On the other hand my roommate was still at the room so I patiently waited for her to arrive at work, she showed up about 2 hrs later, that was probably one of my weakest moments. Over here we (Air Force) are all very close and watch out for one another, we are in close enough proximity so we don't usually have anyone out of site. I will close for now, keep praying, we can all use it!