Weather Fronts / R&R around the corner

The weather here at Shank for the last month has been a few days of snow followed by a few days of sun and then the cycle repeats itself.  It has slowed down our flying quite a bit.  Also the ground forces are not patrolling as much in the weather as well.  We have had some more folks head out on their R&R leave this month.  My leave will be mid-March and I am really looking forward to being home for a few weeks.  Looking forward to seeing the family and eating some good food.
 February is always a busy month for me as it is my birthmonth.  That means that I have to do my APART (Annual Proficiency and Readiness Training).  I have to fly with another standardization pilot and be evaluated on all manuevers and tasks that are required to fly the Apache.  In addition to all the studying there is a Flight Physical, Aircrew Cordination Training,  Computer-Based Aircraft Survivabilty Equipment Training, Recognition of Combat Vehicles Test, A test on the Operators Manual for the Apache.  On top of all that we are starting gunnery.  So there is another Threat Vehicle Test,  HGST (Helicopter Gunnery Skills Test), and Gunnery flights that we must do all on top of our 14 hour Quick Reaction Force duty days. So February is always a busy month for me and it is the shortest month.  Oh well, March will be here soon.

Snow

The last 3 days it has been snowing nonstop.  It has actually been a nice break for us.
It is suppose to keep snowing until late Sunday of Monday.  We still go out and pre-flight
the aircraft and run them up to make sure all are working good. Usually there is a snow-ball
fight along the way.  Then we return to the company command post and either watch a movie or play
the Xbox for our 14 hour shift.