We flew into the gravel pit in the early morning hours. As our Chinook touched ground, two Red Bull Soldiers greeted and escorted us to the two Black Hawk helicopters awaiting a MEDVAC. We walked by a few insurgents while in route, paying no mind to them as they smiled and waved. The terrain was a dinghy beige like most of Iraq. Looking around everything was exactly as I remembered it except one thing- the sky was a beautiful blue that I only saw a few times in Iraq, but see almost everyday in Minnesota. The reason - we were in Mankato, Minnesota and this was a movie set.
