Our Forward CP at Port Douglas in tropical North Queensland has been established. Warriors Warrant Officer Julia Dye arrived last week and immediately began to work her magic in the Adjutant/Logistics business. Warriors Company Gunnery Sergeant Freddie Joe Farnsworth arrives at the end of this week and the rest of the Warriors Cadre is due in on Monday. At that point we do our leader recons of the training area, muster the troops and head for the bush. We are all in 1940s WW II USMC uniform and mind-set for this epic and looking forward to hauling our 100-plus cast and supporting players into the jungle where they will learn first-hand a bit of what it was for Marines who fought on Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu and Okinawa. Our consignment of WW II U.S. and Japanese weaponry has arrived and we are rapidly inspecting and test-firing M-1 rifles, carbines, .30 caliber water-cooled and air-cooled machineguns, 37mm anti-tank cannons and a whole host of really interesting old ordnance. Since one of our main characters is Eugene B. Sledge (author of "With The Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa" who died a couple of years ago)who served with K-3-5 as a 60mm mortarman, we are focusing on that weapon to be sure we get tactics and firing procedures correct. It's heating up over here...literally and figuratively...as we near the Line of Departure. Semper Fidelis from Down Under.