LTC memory: my battle buddy

My battle buddy and I were pretty unique, because we weren't from the same squad. He was on the top bunk, and I was on the bottom. I was in the first squad, and battle buddy Bennett was in second squad.
This was pretty much a problem when we had to keep accountability by squad levels because i wouldn't have a battle buddy in my squad. and neither did he.

I felt pretty lucky to have him as a battle and not some others like..... my head hurts just thinking about it. There was abdelhaq, boakye, bieron, and those guys with those really bad plastic glasses. They weren't horrible because they had those glasses, but it was also convenient that they were lame-os. Easier to label them as the "guys with lame glasses" than "guys with lame glasses who were also coincidentally lame."

So as battle buddies, we did fire guard together. That was pretty much it since everyone was in their squads until lights out. We worked well; he went down to CQ with the accountability while i stayed behind. In fact, I never went down to CQ the whole time, and we were never assigned to do CQ.

The thing I learned about my battle was that he had a little bit of an OCD. He had to have things organized and had to be fully clean. It was great working with an OCD guy. Everyone should! I'm sure the mission will always get done with him.

Battle buddy Bennett had two feet in horrible condition. There would be all sorts of damage to them at the end of the day. I hope he got better. He was a soccer player before, so I guess he knows what he's doing. I trust my battle.