On set of "The Pacific"

First day on Set – The previous day we had just finished boot camp, done our first beach landing and were told that we start shooting the next day at 0420. Luckily a few of us guys spent our first day doing nothing. We sat just off set, ready in all in our gear while waiting to be used, but we didn’t get called. It seems so unorganised on set but the work gets done. We always get told to 'hurry up, and wait.' We get told to be somewhere on set then we all run there then they tell us to wait, then the wait ends up to be 3 hours.

The last few weeks we’ve been having 0400 or 0530 starts which I don’t mind because we finish around 1800. I’ve been doing lots more on set such as sitting in boats, doing some unopposed beach landings and sitting in fox holes. I’m in ‘background’ at the moment because my squad hasn’t entered the script yet so I have to keep my face out of camera. I was called up by Captain Dye the other day to do a scene right in front of the camera which was cool. The director told me what to do, and I only did one rehearsal and one take which the Captain was pretty happy with.

Now that I have my body clock on morning shift, they have informed us that we will commence night shoots, starting today. Now my body clock is going to be all out of whack. We will finally be doing some combat scenes with the Japanese though.