I remember being told that 80 to 90 percent of a deployment is downtime. This is good considering that the alternative usually means that somebody is dying. Now granted, I'm not an infantry Marine. It is not my job to run around kicking in doors, flushing out insurgents and whatnot. Still, I was expecting more from this place. I might be speaking too soon, but this deployment is looking way too easy. My buddy and I are already trying to get off this base and see what goes on outside the wire. Maybe I'll get some interesting stories out of it.