I pull some journal out, and take out a pen.
Entry #06
Nathan 0900
I am in a reinforced dugout, it is dark, and I am standing next to a chemlight, I can barely see. I think I trust Alex, the only Russian in the force, and I am still wondering why he is in our army. I also trust Shock, he is a nice guy, cool, I like that...
It is getting cold, you know, wacky equator stuff, hot in the day, cold as hell in the night. I am going to ask before that mission if I can get a thermal scope on the M8-2, because a night mission, you will need one.
I look up from my journal, and I see a few privates faces looking at me as if I was writing in a pink diary, "It is for a news thing down from New Jersey, and if you want to bug me 'bout it, we can have a fight 'bout the freedom of press." I smile, and I close the journal and walk over to my bunk, I put it in my chest.