Black Out

So a few days ago, I hopped on a helo to go scout stuff out for work. Went to another fob. Had a short work day, and went to sleep early. Now this is the cool part. I was sleeping in a tent and I woke up in the middle of the night. Completely pitch black darkness. I was still lying down looking up and than to left and right of the tent. Couldn't see a thing. I thought my eyes were still closed!!! It's a weird thing having your eyes open and can't see a thing. Its like waking up BLIND.

Don't often have that experience where one of your senses is completely gone. Usually in the city the some kind of light leaking through the window, or door. Same thing in tents usually, there's some kind of light leaking through. Anyways later I wondered why is so dark on this fob at night? Why isn't there lights by the porta-poties or other common areas. Find out it's a black out fob. Which mean they try have no lights after dark. Why is this? Apparently a few years ago there as a lot of enemy Taliban snipers able to snipe at people because of the lights at night. The place is lot safer now and I don't think there's been something like that in a while. It was just an old safety thing from a few years ago.


On another related post, back on Kandahar, its been raining quite a bit. And every time it rains the generators for showers goes out about 730 at night. I get off at 7, 715 and try to race back for a shower before the power goes out. It took me a while to figure out that the generators break every time it rains. Been a few times, taking a shower and the lights go out and the water pressure than starts dying. Good thing this is not a black out base, cause there some light leaking in through the windows.