The agicultural inspectors start going over our aircraft this afternoon, and will continue on Monday and Tuesday. I'm feeling good about it; I was scrubbing all morning, and most of the aircraft are spotless. I was working on the two exceptions.

The problem is that we keep two aircraft on standby every day from dawn to dusk for firefighting duties. Normally that means range fires, but I guess if a local FD called us we'd help them too. Obviously, the two "firebucket" aircraft couldn't be stripped and washed when all the others were being done. So the plan is, as soon as the inspectors clear two aircraft as being vermin-free, those two get declared the new firebuckets, and the old firebuckets get attacked by all hands, and we'll have them ready for inspection Monday or Tuesday.

Interestingly, we had to launch to fight a range fire this morning, even though it's been raining on and off all week. The grass is all soaked and the ground is all mud, so I have no idea what they managed to ignite up there. But Marines always find a way.

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