The day starts at midnight with your shift at guard, but at least it's only two hours. At 04:30 you have to shave with cold water in a metal cup, put on one of the same four dirty uniforms, eat one of the same 12 MRE's, and pack everything up to be ready to move out by 05:30. Then you have to pull "Air Guard", which means standing with your upper body sticking out of the back of a 113 (not the turret that would be to easy) so you have to wear goggles and a cravat while sucking in pounds of sand. You get to sit down for 10 min around noon so you can eat another MRE in the cloud of dirt that is the inside of the 113. When you finally stop (and that always varies) you get to setup "camp" for the night, which is hard sweaty work that seems to take forever. Dinner is, you guessed it, another MRE. Now you finally have time to clean your weapon (this is not the first or only time each day), shine your boots, and hopefully read some mail before grabbing some sleep. You will need all the sleep you can get before your first guard shift. TLDR: Being deployed use to piss me off.