That is a complete days thought by itself, but as it might leave you with an incomplete picture of my day I will go further. Today was quite a bit dustier than usual, but most of it was high in the air. I didn't get any of that nasty grit in your eye or grit in your mouth stuff except when I had to replace a cable underneath a truck, a completely weather unrelated event. The main effect it had was canceling some of the voluntary air missions. Makes since to me that when you can't see as well you won't take a risk flying the brass out to FOB Holeinthewall to see (or be seen by) their troops. Viva la dust!
The other missions that fall in that voluntary category is taking people in to the main airport to go home. One of our contractors down at the shop was supposed to go home today, and he wasn't pleased that his flight was canceled. Another one of the EWO's was supposed to go on R&R, and let me tell you, I have never heard a more spirited defense of Naval aviators compared to Army pilots by a non-pilot in my life. This EWO went on a tirade (to the rest of the Navy EWO's of course) about how the Navy would fly in this weather even if they had zero visability and gale force winds with the carrier pitch thirty degree even if the wings had fallen off their planes, etc. etc. He was so vocal about the superior qualities of Navy air that there was a moment he almost sounded like a pilot himself.
So after a couple of hours the dust goes away and the brass starts flying again. And people get to go home again. And you start wondering what day of the week it is until you go get dinner. And that is another day in the books at Rusty.
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