Another stupid military reserve exercise. At least the weather isn't bad.
One of the guys had a face in camouflage color - olive green, fitting the uniform. He was still drunk from the night. When he tried to pee, he almost did it in his pants, as he wasn't quite familiar with this type of uniform (maybe he was navy) and just couldn't find it. Quite a circus, good start.
As we had to wait a lot, as usual, and were on the grounds of a farm, someone had the expertise to help deliver a calf in the nearby stable.
We walked all the way to Tisa, where we were biletted in some kind of agricultural storage space. Not really a hangar, it had wooden floors, so it wasn't a pigsty either... well, could have been anything. We got bales of hay and the good military sleeping bags. We also got m72 rifles, i.e. yugoslav version of the kalašnjikov, no ammo. I didn't have this while I was serving, but a few guys did, so I kind of knew what goes where.
The usual mess, when you put able men, who have their worries and their regular lives, into a situation where they either walk or wait and have absolutely nothing to do, ensued by itself. Trying to sleep took some time, because there was the almost mandatory telling jokes for whole two hours. Well, heard a couple of new ones and about a hundred I already knew.
We stayed here for another two days, fucking dragons and doing generally nothing. Except, um, yeah, I had to remove my beard again - the winter cap doesn't quite cover it. At least the major or colonel or whoever the fucker was didn't see the hair :).
15-XI-2015 - 12-XI-2025